Those in the know

[smokey23]

Hey gents what do you prefer the Nvidia SLI setups or the ATI Crossfire, what has the best graphics performance in youre opinion and in youre experience playing AH??


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[Masherbrum]

SLi inhibits the use "Turning on Vsync" and resorts to "screen tearing".   

Dunno about xfire.   

If I were you if this is the only/primary game you play?   Don't waste money on it.   

[BaldEagl]

I had dual eVGA 512 8800 GTS's SLI'd for a short time.  No matter what I did I couldn't enable vsync.  I was running about 280 FPS in AH with all card and game graphic settings on high but the screen tearing was so annoying I pulled the second card and RMA'd it.

If you're running a CRT monitor then go for it if you feel the need for insane frame rates.  If you're using an LCD don't bother.

My single 8800 GTS runs the game with all card and game settings cranked to the max without flinching off my 60 fps refresh rate.  Personally, from now on I'll just stick with one good card.

PS:  They do look cool set up inside the case though if you've got a windowed case (I don't) and want to impress your friends.  Just don't play a game in front of them 

[Ghosth]

yet to see an article where you can gain more than 10 - 15% over a single card.

So much better to forget SLI and buy one good card.

[Dragon]

So much better to forget SLI and buy one good card.

+1

[llama]

Aces High is CPU-bound, not video card bound, so getting an SLI-like setup is a total waste for this game.

For other games, I think the math in favor of an SLI-like setup is very poor. 

You get to spend TWICE as much money, use TWICE as much electricity (needing a more powerful and expensive power supply), make ALMOST TWICE as much noise with two fans spinning like crazy for both cards (plus any extra system fans you need to keep the system cool overall), all to get between a 20% and 50% increase in framerates (usually closer to 20%) than you would with a single card.

I think it's much smarter to spend $250 to $350 on a good single card than $400 ($200 X 2) on an SLI-like setup. And for AH, $150 will do for a good card.

-Llama