The way I read it is that those two debating have very different circumstances. One is budget-oriented and the other said it himself that he lives among the rich and frugality isn't something he's familiar with, so in that way the other guy is correct in saying he speaks for the majority.
PS: Can I borrow some money, maybe a few hundred thousand?
I think everyone would prefer it to run 5,000 FPS with 90xAA with a GPU made out of pure energy that uses limited sentience to sense your house's temperature to decide whether to create heat or to take it away, but not many people can afford it or have parents that can afford it.
FPS vs. Price would be a good addition to the OP, providing some sort of general consensus could be met.
Is there a FPS "sweet spot", and if so, how can I tell what mine would be?
(not actually a question from me, but rather what I was thinking it could involve)
Well yeah thats kinda the point. A lot of people say to themselves, "I'll buy this motherboard because it supports SLI/XFire, and although I cant use it right now, I want to use it in future."
Wrong. If you need XFire now, go ahead. If one 5870 isnt enough, go ahead and buy an XFire mobo now. But if you avoid buying an AMD chipset mobo to use with an AMD CPU because you think you might want a second GTX460 next year, WRONG. Think again. At that point, its better to buy a brand new GTX560. It would be faster, cooler, and better. And may end up cheaper thanks to the resale value of your old card.
I probably should have phrased it better. 90% of gamers will never use SLI or XFire. Look at the latest Steam survey and tell me what percentage of gamers have multi GPU setups. I bet its very few. Some gamers seem to think "But I can afford 2x 5970's, why cant everyone else? What do you mean you're still using an 8800GTS, loser!" Very very few people are serious about gaming to buy a motherboard, case, PSU and GPU setup for multi GPU, and of those few can actually afford to do so. I know one person in real life with a multi GPU setup. Only one.
So, if you are serious enough, and you can afford it and do need it, go ahead. To everyone else, buy whatever motherboard makes the most sense in terms of features other than multi GPU, since 99.9% of the time you wont end up using it, and unless you acquire your second GPU within say 6 months, you would be better off selling your old one and getting a new one.
the ONLY exception to this might be if you wanted a cheap nvidia card for PhysX processing. Then look into SLI.
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