brandonbwt
03-19-2009, 01:48 PM
I'm planning on purchasing a pretty robust gaming laptop some time this coming summer and wanted to ask the community for some input. The main question I keep coming to is whether to go for one dedicated high-end video card or with an SLI setup with two lesser cards. Does anyone have any experience or know of any articles detailing multi-box performance compared between a single standalone vs a 2-card SLI solution?
My goal is to software multibox 5 accounts (using keyclone) on the same laptop with relatively smooth framerates (30-50 fps for the main client, 15 background fps capped for the slave clients).
The specific GPU comparison I'm looking for would be between 1) a singe GTX 260 Mobile GPU or 2) a pair of 9800M GTX in SLI mode.
For CPU, RAM, HDD, etc I will be using something like a 2.5-3.0GHz quad core processor, somewhere between ~4-6GB of 1066+ DDR3 RAM, and a 128GB solid state hard drive. I'm really more interested in a performance comparison between the single GPU and the dual SLI setup.
Any tech articles, websites, reviews or personal anecdotes (please include specifics like fps, CPU load, etc if you want to leave a personal anecdote) would be greatly appreciated.
My goal is to software multibox 5 accounts (using keyclone) on the same laptop with relatively smooth framerates (30-50 fps for the main client, 15 background fps capped for the slave clients).
The specific GPU comparison I'm looking for would be between 1) a singe GTX 260 Mobile GPU or 2) a pair of 9800M GTX in SLI mode.
For CPU, RAM, HDD, etc I will be using something like a 2.5-3.0GHz quad core processor, somewhere between ~4-6GB of 1066+ DDR3 RAM, and a 128GB solid state hard drive. I'm really more interested in a performance comparison between the single GPU and the dual SLI setup.
Any tech articles, websites, reviews or personal anecdotes (please include specifics like fps, CPU load, etc if you want to leave a personal anecdote) would be greatly appreciated.