Originally posted by: Rollo
--First you would need to invest in a SLI mobo,
I buy a new motherboard every year anyway, Ive read these will cost $150 and up. (about $10-$20 more than I usually spend, so not a factor?)
Wow, you buy a new motherboard every year? good for you, but I'm sure most can't do the same. So you're just gonna upgrad the motherboard? What about the CPU and RAM?
--If you get 2 top end card now, it would be a overkill and you'll be spending too much $$$ for something that you will not use fully.
Why wouldn't you get to use it fully? When you're playing every game at 16X12 4X8X with no slowdowns, that isn't "using it"?
So your advise is to get 2 top end cards ($900) to get a couple of more frame rates on a game they can already play?
--If you get 1 top end card now, you'll be limited to getting the same card later if you plan to take advantge of the SLI Motherboard that you purchased before hand. By doing so you are limiting yourself on videocard options. Either you get the same card you got a year ago, or you get a new Graphic card. If you are getting a new Graphic card then you just wasted you money on the SLI mobo, so your only option that Justified you purchase of this SLI mobo is to get the same card you got a year ago.
Errr, this is sort of the point? That you can by another of the same card later when they're cheaper rather than selling your old card at a huge loss?
what I gave here is a example of your choices after you got a SLI mobo and 1 videocard and is thinking of getting the 2nd card to complete your SLI or a newer Videocard.
So instead of getting a SLI mobo and then a top end card, you could just get a top end card, and when the time comes to upgrade, you can get the new top end card and just resell your old one.
Of course, you'll have to live with much lower performance than the guys who bought SLI, and knowing that you're usually a guy who tries to have the best or close to it, but now you're just in the middle of the pack with average performance. Every benchmark you look at from now on will have your $400 - $500 card in the middle of the chart.
When the time comes to upgrade could be 1 year, 2 year or even 3. I didn't say WHEN that person is going to upgrade..,, you upgrade when you NEED to. I got my ATI 8500 ($200) when they released, can play all the game that I WANT to play, and just a week ago I upgraded to a ATI 9800 pro (Used $100) which can play all the games that's CURRENTLY OUT. I normally would not pay more that $300 for a videocard, most wouldn't too, why do you think they call $200 mark Main Stream. Oh my old 8500 can still play Half-Life2 very well.
You also have the options of moving to SLI mobo if it gained more support by this time, and you'll know exactly how 2 sli card will preform on the newer current games.
More support? Who cares? Motherboard makers are working feverishly to put out boards like this as we speak. We know how it works with FarCry, Doom3, and Half Life2, which are going to be the most heavily licensed engines in the next couple years?
more support is alway better, improvement on SLI hardware will happen. That will mean another new motherboard you'll have to get.,
A Good example is Direct X.
If you do SLI now you are limited to DX9 and i'm sure the new card will be going to DX10 or 11.
nVidia cards are DX9 SM3. The games that support this will start coming out over the next year. Even though DX9 has been out
two years there are less than 10 games that really use it. Do you honestly think you can tell us, and not have us laugh really hard, that DX10 and 11 will be a factor in the next year and a half? How often do you think people with $600-$1000 to spend on video cards upgrade video cards? (hint: they are not keeping them 5 years)
I'm talking about what newer Directx would the new videocard support. If they can support higher would it not be better?
So this can really decrease your preformance, if the game you want to play is base on the new DX. Just check out how bad the FX5900 did on DX9 over DX8 on half-life 2.
LOL- this proves my point. HL2 came out a year and a half after the FX5900. I don't know about you, but if you honestly keep any computer hardware 2 years, you're using antiques.
, But most of the other videocard around the same price range as the FX5900 when it was released seems to do just fine with DX9 Even some lower cost one still do better. Example: If you were to get the FX5900 at the time and do SLI, you'll still be slower than a $200 card, 6600GT. How much does the fx5900 cost?
What i'm waiting for is a Videocard that's similar to a motherboard, so that we can just exchange the GPU and RAM.
You'll wait a long time for that, do you think the only components on a video card that change are the core and RAM?!?!?
just like a motherboard their are other stuffs too, but the 2 main ones are CORE and RAM. Why is it not possible? Besides this is what I would like to see in the future, is it wrong to tell people this?
Nothing in your post makes any sense at all, you should really research this stuff better before giving advice on it.
What I gave are advices for the average joe. What you gave is no advice at all.
All you said was, you should get a SLI motherboard along with 2 top end card right now.. (~$1000) so you will be at the top of the list in benchmarks. Of course you'll need new CPUs and newer ram ( ~$500) too. You don't have to worry about support or compabilty of softwares/games that's 1 and a half years aways because you would of upgraded to all new videocard, motherboard, cpu and ram already..
It would work if everyone is as Rich as you,
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