Mid-range dual-card solutions: SLI or Crossfire?

[semisonic9]

Topic.

I'm considering a rig with 2 mid-range GPUs in a SLI or Crossfire configuration, and wondering what the performance disparity will be between the two setups. If it's not as notable, I'll probably go with Crossfire for the multi-monitor support and what seems to be cheaper Mobos.

Feel free to post any general pros/cons. I've been looking heavily into SLI up until now, and am only beginning to swerve towards Crossfire.

~Semi

 

[krnmastersgt]

CF tends to scale better, but better scaling with weaker individual cards kinda kills the point now doesn't it? I'd say SLi the 9600 GTs if I had to choose, or just wait for RV770 and G200 and decide then. As for mobos, like I said in the Motherboards section, the 750i is a rather cheap SLI board, performance is nice and the features are more based on the 790 than the 780 so a lot of the problems you think were there are gone now. Up to you ultimately of course, just my 2 cents.