using a 20" lcd, do you think that there will ever be a game that the flagship cards from ati and nvidia will not be able to handle and sli or crossfire will be needed to use high to max eye candy? I personally think no because I've never had the need to get sli. I've always had a really good video card when playing the latest games.
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SLI/CROSSFIRE Ever?
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Direct X 10 effects and graphics may have an impact, but since we havnt seen it, we dont know how much of an impact that will be. Plus with Conroe, that also will have a effect most likely. Exciting time for hardware technology though IMO.
DirectX10 is supposed to reduce driver overhead and should improve GPU power across the board... or something along those lines. 
Ya it's a waste. There always seems to be just one game where SLI/Crossfire would be nice to have, but never mandatory. For the most part it's a waste, but I would like to see games in 16AA... Some military sims run at like 40AA - must be nice!
Ya it's a waste. There always seems to be just one game where SLI/Crossfire would be nice to have, but never mandatory. For the most part it's a waste, but I would like to see games in 16AA... Some military sims run at like 40AA - must be nice!
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Current high end video cards will get decent frame rates (30-40 fps) with moderate AA, AF & HDR settings... SLI/Crossfire is not a must in order to get good eye candy, but defeinately helps with higher resolutions and detail settings while maintaining a smooth framerate.
Developers make games that take full advantage of gpu acceleration but its the gpu developers that keep gpu development from maxing out game detail with a single gpu simply because its better for business to sell 2 instead of one...This is evident because no reseller uses a SLI/Crossfire 'package' that offers discounts for buying more than 1 card at the same time...Imagine buying a gorgeous package that contains 2 XFX 7900 GT Extreme Editions at $525...Sales for a dual video card solution would rise buy at least 15% and I'm being conservative.
Developers make games that take full advantage of gpu acceleration but its the gpu developers that keep gpu development from maxing out game detail with a single gpu simply because its better for business to sell 2 instead of one...This is evident because no reseller uses a SLI/Crossfire 'package' that offers discounts for buying more than 1 card at the same time...Imagine buying a gorgeous package that contains 2 XFX 7900 GT Extreme Editions at $525...Sales for a dual video card solution would rise buy at least 15% and I'm being conservative.
Dark Prodigy said:
so, your saying its kinda like when doom 3 came out. The best vid card at the time was a 6800 ultra/x800xt. The game fps slowed down a bit if you tried to run high res with AA/AF at ULTRA quality. Then they came out with that tweak that boosted performance tremendously.