Regeneration

Which one is better for you?

Regeneration

My choice will be SLI because I already have an SLI enabled motherboard and I’m too “busy” to replace it and reinstall OS.

Cool Barn

Hey Regen where is the "I'm struggling to buy one decent VGA card let alone two" option???

nCaine

hahaha Cool Barn the same for me ))

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jbruneau

I picked SLI as well.

Simply because I like the idea that I can just get 2 regular normal everyday cards, and hook them up to gether as long as they have the same GPU (taking that extremely lightly ). nForce4 is very well known, has had all of the bugs worked out (except for SATA controller and Maxtor HDDs), and is available everywhere.
Crossfire needs the 'master card' which doesn't exist anywhere, that external dongle thing, and a mobo that supports crossfile which don't exist anywhere either. I don't like the external dongles, they are messy, and very hard on the cards as well! The mobo has alot of bugs as well, and there aren't very many to choose from (like only 2 or 3 supported so far and only 1 approved).

Now, I'm not trying to start a huge war, just stating the facts! Crossfire is very far and few right now...

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Shin_Mike

SLI cause I like it :/.

Sincerely Shin Mike.

Bio-Hazard

neither..............I'm a single card user and will stay that way. I see no reason for 2 video cards myself.

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werty316

SLi for me thought I am only running one card. I like ATI but hate their drivers. Always owned an nVidia card and probably will never own an ATI.

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zachig

Voted for SLI. I currently own XFX 6600GT AGP but I'm gonna upgrade it soon to a 6800GS PCI-E.

TOO BAD I cannot afford another 6800GS so I'll be able to run them in SLI .

Cool Barn

I'd suggest you be careful about totally discounting hardware from certain companies mate, especially considering that the graphics world is just a two-horse race at the moment. Admittedly ATI's drivers were very poor when the Radeon 8500 was released, but they have improved so much these days it's not funny. In fact I have owned a 6800GT and now have an X800 Pro, and to be honest I actually think ATI's drivers are better than Nvidia's. The fact that they release new official Catalysts every month is just the icing on the cake compared to Nvidia, which always seem to be releasing beta drivers but not always WHQL ones.

As an example what would have happened if you wanted to upgrade around the time when the Geforce 5800 was released (hey I know it's ancient history but it's just an example okay )? Are you really telling me you would have bought a 5800 over the significantly superior 9800 Pro purely because of the company name on the PCB? That sounds very foolhardy to me, but at the end of the day if Nvidia-only makes you happy then that's all that matters doesn't it.