Most people with SLI buy two top of the line, or near top of the line, cards at release to take advantage of it right then... because everybody knows a couple generation laters later you can get a single card that spits out better exact performance and uses less power.
The point of SLI is to drive extremely high resolutions in some demanding games because LCD's have a native res.
Once your cards are not capable of pushing the res it's off to ebay and then time to upgrade and buy two more cards.
I agree with you tottaly here however utlizing SLI with old hardware isn't going to be of any benefit at all. As it is you can have dual 8500's in SLI but, for what reason when you can have a single 8600GTS at the least? Its my point of course when using 2 6800Ultras for SLI. I can only see the use of SLI when using a dual 8800GTS or dual 8800GTX/Ultra. 2 7900Gtx is about the same as 1 GTS or GTX so its also pointless to go SLI with even that.
Wait one second there, it depends on the type of game. Quite often the most "hardcore" FPS players throttle down details and resolution even though they have a PC capable of maxing out the game simply because it offers an inherent in game advantage of being less distracting.
This is deffinently a subjective concept on how distractive someone can become with the surrounding objects. I can only see a lower resolution just to gain faster frame rates but, not that it helps at all in terms of distraction.
The point of SLI is to drive extremely high resolutions in some demanding games because LCD's have a native res.
Once your cards are not capable of pushing the res it's off to ebay and then time to upgrade and buy two more cards.
I agree with you tottaly here however utlizing SLI with old hardware isn't going to be of any benefit at all. As it is you can have dual 8500's in SLI but, for what reason when you can have a single 8600GTS at the least? Its my point of course when using 2 6800Ultras for SLI. I can only see the use of SLI when using a dual 8800GTS or dual 8800GTX/Ultra. 2 7900Gtx is about the same as 1 GTS or GTX so its also pointless to go SLI with even that.
Wait one second there, it depends on the type of game. Quite often the most "hardcore" FPS players throttle down details and resolution even though they have a PC capable of maxing out the game simply because it offers an inherent in game advantage of being less distracting.
This is deffinently a subjective concept on how distractive someone can become with the surrounding objects. I can only see a lower resolution just to gain faster frame rates but, not that it helps at all in terms of distraction.
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