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Noodle Boy said:I hear that SLI will be almost twice as fast as current cards in certain applications, but what I ask is that...i kinda don't see the point of getting an SLI for so much money, when you can just wait for next generation hardware
DanK said:Yeah, a year or so should be about right. I'd look to something like it for my next rig; dual 16x PCI-E slots, and a single PCI-E videocard. Then, when I need more performance later on, buy another of the same graphics card (which by that time will be pretty cheap). I don't see anything wrong with this.
wtf are you even doing on this forum
a1ka1ine said:providing the exact same model is still stocked, otherwise youd have to buy two new cards
DanK said:You can still buy many varieties of original Radeon or TNT2 online (check pricewatch if you don't believe me). I don't think finding a card that's brand new now is going to be that hard in a couple years.
I was being sarcasticTman said:what????
Yout telling me that you would want it in your rig even if you had the money to spend on it easly???
WTF!!!!
Talonz said:I don't even think two SLI 6800GTs will even stack up in a couple of years.
DanK said:The Radeon 9700 Pro was introduced in August 2002. I'm sure there are plenty of people still happily gaming on that card. It's also pretty adequate for most of the games out there today. Barring some huge revolution in graphics engine requirements, it makes sense that cards released in the present will still be adequate 2 years from now.
Esben said:At the point most games are CPU limited, they allready run great with current graphics cards (100+ FPS), so that means your games aren't performing bad because of your CPU. If you're CPU limited you can just as well increase resolution/detail/antialiasing. When it's no longer your CPU that's "bottlenecking" performance, there's a definite advantage to SLI.
I don't understand all the hate. We've had dual-CPU systems for a long time, a no one's complained about them. I'd much rather have a dual-GPU system than a dual-CPU system. How much doesn't an Opteron 248/250, or FX53 system cost?
If you double the price of something, and the performance doubles, isn't that a great relation between performance and price? When you go from a 3000+ to a 3700+, you don't get double performance, but price doubles. That means you pay big bucks for the extra percent performance. We should appreciate the fact that performance mostly increases linearly with price in the graphics division.
lentic said:... we have yet to see a card w/ [512MB] RAM ...
AMD_Gamer said:if you are complaining about the cost then dont call yourself a hardcore gamer, a hardcore gamer does what he has to do to get the most FPS possible, and as far as this SLI technology goes i am really excited about, and having 2 video cards inside your box is sexy