SLI/Crossfire Question

[ThisIsDrakul]

SLI/Crossfire configs seem problematic and not worth the agg....

However, is there any difference if you are using cards dedicated to monitors and have the config for Multiple Display Performance Mode.

Seems to me there is a difference between expecting a single wow to work across two cards vs a single card for 1 display?

Anyone got any experience? anyone theorycraft it?

[grap]

ha ... it would be great but wow seems to work with the first GPU and forget a little the other ....
In my pc, with 2 monitors, it s faster to play wow with only x4870 than 2 X x4870 with CF or not CF bridge :(

[Taliesin]

My Dell 730 originally came with my two cards set up with Crossfire. I've tried both using Crossfire and independent cards using two 24" widescreen flatpanels, but really didn't notice a difference either way. I do use Keyclone and have inactive windows capped out at 15 FPS, so I'm probably not stressing the cards very much either way.

I guess it all comes down to how you are going to use them. One big monitor? Use SLI/Crossfire (as if this wasn't obvious enough). Two monitors? Then probably either way would work fine, but you'll be able to tweak performance for each card/monitor more easily with independent cards and using 3rd party utilities. Three or more monitors? Then you should plan to keep the cards independent and run multiple monitors from each.

Just my two cents, but I'm far from an "expert" in this area.

[ThisIsDrakul]

Thanks for the comments.

Stupidly I have never thought of trying 2 cards without sli.......I may give that a go......