Sam-- A buddy of mine built a new system around a 590SLI Crossfire motherboard recently and she reports it's working out fine.

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As far as the "Sam Hate" issue is concerned, I am a bit guilty of this from time to time. My thoughts are:

* Sam has chosen a multiboxing path that is very different from most of the community here. The vast majority of us don't understand why he's doing what he's doing, which has led to some harsh criticism.

* Sam has generally responded by ignoring the unconstructive feedback, but he's also ignored a fair amount of constructive feedback/advice as well. More than once, this has led to his painful public admissions of "oops, you told me so".

Personally, I view Sam as the multiboxing community's Don Quixote-- he's out there jousting with the 26-man multiboxing windmill at the moment. Does that mean that it's open season to abuse him on these forums, probably not. However, I think Sam should understand that he's probably always not going to get the rousing support from everyone given that he is embarking on a journey most do not identify with.

I have faith in him that he will eventually get all his 26 (why, Sam, why 26?!) guys to L80. Unfortunately, I think this will be a Pyrrhic victory for Sam-- he will have 26 L80s and then figure out that he is extremely limited in what he has accomplished (or will accomplish)-- other than making a big "I did it!" post here on d-b.com