Does it make sense to match an SLI Mobo with an ATI card like X850XT?

DaveyTN

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The cost would only be about $50 and wouldn't this give me a potential upgrade path in the future?
 

Matthias99

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If you're willing to pay "only" $50 (which is a 33-50% premium over a high-end non-SLI board) for a feature you won't use now and might not even use in the future, sure.
 

Ike0069

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So are you suggesting at some point in the future when you need so much more graphics power than the X850XT supplies that you will actually buy 2 SLI cards (which I'm guessing will be years away), that you will still be using this same MB?
Sound like a complete waste of $50 to me.
 

imported_michaelpatrick33

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The new Fudo's will be "SLI", I forget what they call it. I understand it will not require a connector and it will be able to mix and match different card families. If this is true wouldn't it be great if they offered "backward" capability to the x800 family. Oh well, a dreamer's dream of the impossible dream. I am getting a x800xl, with my DFI SLI board (memory voltages, mmmmmm memory voltages) because that extra one hundred dollars between it and 6800gt is going to the PSU and cpu because I will add SLI in late summer, early fall (Ati or Nvidia) and I will simply sell my x800xl or put it in my second rig. I personally, will spend the extra 50 bucks for the SLI but I have an upgrade plan in place where it makes sense and I am not using the x850xt.