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Sli or Crossfire?

Sli or Crossfire?

  • nVidia’s SLI

    Votes: 15 37.5%

  • ATI’s CrossFire

    Votes: 25 62.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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What do you prefer?

It seems like more people are running Crossfire over Sli, All I ever owned was Nvidia. I'm building a first time gaming rig and I can't decide between the two.:banghead:
 
I agree crossfire seems to be more trouble then it's worth, and with micro stuttering once you see it you'll notice it more and will drive you nuts.
 
js01 said:
I agree crossfire seems to be more trouble then it's worth, and with micro stuttering once you see it you'll notice it more and will drive you nuts.
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So you like Sli or neither?
 
I've never actually seen micro stuttering yet, i've played games from dead space, to fall out 3 and far cry 2, mass effect etc.. I'm yet to notice it.
Crysis for one i do notice stuttering but thats mainly probably because of its poor crossfire support on 32bit exe.. when i play crysis on 64bit its just as smooth as any game.

So yeah imo micro-stuttering isn't even noticeable enough to be considered of why not to get sli or crossfire. And with the issues, it all depends how well you follow instructions and wether or not one of your cards are bad. Nowadays it should be as simple as take the second card out of the box, install it to your motherboard and let your OS do the work. The only thing you really only need to consider of why not to get it is how well performance would scale.

For me would be crossfire because you don't need an nvidia chipset that costs a crap load.
 
js01 said:
I agree crossfire seems to be more trouble then it's worth, and with micro stuttering once you see it you'll notice it more and will drive you nuts.
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In my personal experience, I prefer SLi for ease of setup but Crossfire for slightly better scaling performance, these days you can get fairly near to 100% performance outta that 2nd card in some games/apps, I still think NVidia is a touch behind... although my preference would always be for a single card solution.
 
CrossFire is my choice ...or even better yet CrossFireX:toast:
 
CrossFire preferred. I love a challenge.:D
 
I guess crossfire becuase you can use an AMD chipset or an Intel chipset... no Nvidia chipsets for me.

I'm not counting x58..
 
Crossfire is more supported. Compare Nforce 750's to P45's and 790FX.. Which would you rather have for OCing?
 
ShadowFold said:
Crossfire is more supported. Compare Nforce 750's to P45's and 790FX.. Which would you rather have for OCing?
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A 790i Ultra :p................... sorry!
 
DanTheBanjoman said:
If that's your argument you should go for multichrome. Works on basically any chipset.
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Well it did scale well for not being chipset dependent but that wasnt exactly the point I was making. It would be nice to get drop the dependance on the chipset for all MultiGPU options.

The Multichrome S7 looked sweet though, I'd love to score a whopping 3500k in 3DMark06... 19k is just overrated. :wtf:
 
I will be going crossfire in my new build. Seems to have better scaling
 
Crossfire has better scaling, but nvidia has more and better SLI support in games, whereas some games wont work with CF mode
 
I prefer crossfire. I have never had Sli. I am just not a big fan of Nvidia cards. Don't want one so why would I want two? :p
 
Picked SLI because i like my 680i board and having two GTX 2*0 on it would make a beast of a system.:)
 
dual GPU systems depend on drivers. In a system which has similarly performing Nvidia or ATI cards, i would pick nvidia just for the drivers (for single card i would go ATI)... Nvidia has deeper pockets and works more closely with game developers and their drivers tend to overall be better than ATI's, even when their hardware is not. (not flaming just my opinion.)

@ holycow, modern CF (HD4xxx) and SLI(GT200) scale about the same.
 
Xazax said:
Crossfire has better scaling, but nvidia has more and better SLI support in games, whereas some games wont work with CF mode
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I did not know that, thank you.
 
With crossfire you never know if things are going to scale or not (but when they do :pimp: ). Often times I have to rename a game to make it scale. It's a simple fix but I think crossfire results are mostly dependent on the person trying to use it.

Crossfire can be a headache at times, I dont know about SLi.
 
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