This post is nonsense.
First off, I'd like to say you're the fanboy here buddy. nVidia cards don't scale "better". Read up.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crossfire-sli-3-way-scaling,2865-10.html
That said, labeling me as an nVidia fanboy is idiotic (and fanboyism) at best, while I'm trying to keep my posts unsided. nVidia has had
SLi profiles. Do you have an idea on what that is? It means you have game specific profiles for easy management. ATi/AMD didn't until 2010. And that was pretty late considering CrossFire came out in 05. They lacked CF in more games than SLi lacked. In sober fact, SLi supported lots of games when CF supported only a few. Oh well.
First off, I wasn't talking to you directly. More of a generalization to the other crap I read in this thread. So no need to attack me, and calling my post nonsense is unfounded.
From my post, of whom am I a fanboy? Hmmmm??? I recommend 560Ti's and 5870's
BASED ON THE OP's NEEDS. I dissuade from mediocre cards because they're not worth the money. I don't recommend a multiGPU setup because of his resolution, and in the same right, why I don't even recommend 2GB cards because of the low resolution he's going to be playing at. 2GB of VRAM wont net him any sort of improvement over a 1GB card. Once again, I am answering the OP's NEEDS and not some theory that people have concocted in their heads as to who is better simply out of fanboyism. Both manufacturers make great cards, and both have had their issues.
And why are you trying to insult my intelligence?
I don't have
764 REP over at OCN for no reason there buddy boy. It's not because I spread a lot of fanboyish misinformation. I look at the cold hard facts, couple that with my experience and base a conclusion. Official SLI or CFX profiles have little to do with ACTUAL scaling. For the most part, with very few exceptions, you will ALWAYS notice an improvement when running multi-GPU setups. Whether officially supported or not, there will almost always be a frame rate boost; with the rare exception where it actually hinders it. Sure it may not raise MAX FPS, but it will almost always raise the min and avg.
And furthermore, how is my post nonsense in regard to Nvidia's drivers?
The 196.75 drivers burned up cards. Total nonsense there.
Then there's my experience with Nvidia, they released the 180.xx driver, it made some games unplayable with my 8800's. BF2142 for instance. When going inside the Titan the screen would turn totally white and artifacts all over the place. Contacted Nvidia and they blamed my hardware (of course) yet they worked perfectly with the 175.19 driver. I guess that's nonsense too.
With AMD, I haven't had nearly as many issues. I've run 4870's in crossfire. No issues there whatsoever. Ran 2 5870's and a 5850, still no issues. The first issue I've EVER had with an ATi product is with this 6950 not wanting to clock all the way up to 3D clocks. But that is yet to be determined. It's a very good possibility that this card is going to be RMA'd.
I'm no fanboy of either. I like both, but ATi, overall, has been better to me. Less hassles, good performance, and a great price. Although, lately I've been coming back around to Nvidia. As a matter of fact, I have 6 Nvidia products n my possession as opposed to only 1 ATi.
And lastly, why wouldn't you get the 5870 over the 560Ti? Almost identical performance and yet a 5870 costs $100 less.