Multi-card poll: Do you or have you ever used Crossfire or SLI?

[luv2increase]

Fine, as you wish. Create a poll that makes your point as, only you can do that. This is an open forum, create a poll and prove me wrong. Many folks, including me, are actually eagerly waiting for you to prove your point. All this trash talking can be put to rest if you show us some real numbers.

Trash talking? You consider someone saying that "MANY" people who buy the absolute "single-GPU" top-end cards such as the 280, 285, 480, 4870, 4890 and 5870 will buy more than one as trash talk???

 

[busydude]

Trash talking? You consider someone saying that "MANY" people who buy the absolute "single-GPU" top-end cards such as the 280, 285, 480, 4870, 4890 and 5870 will buy more than one as trash talk???

Unless you can prove it, it will be accounted for trash talk.

 

[rgallant]

@f4phantom2500
-you missed the point of having NEXT YEARS single GPU power today , with multi gpu's.
I can see on your 22" monitor it's not required , but larger monitors\res. have been sold for a while now and some multi gpu people just might own one.

 

[Voo]

@f4phantom2500
-you missed the point of having NEXT YEARS single GPU power today , with multi gpu's.
I can see on your 22" monitor it's not required , but larger monitors\res. have been sold for a while now and some multi gpu people just might own one.

I'd say that's perfectly covered by point 1: "You're hell bent on getting a very high end rig, and the caliber of GPU muscle that you're looking to get can only be found in the form of 2 high end GPUs in SLI/CF "

 

[rgallant]

-[You're hell bent on getting a very high end rig]
-all I want to do is play the games I play @max. settings today[and for the last year] , not next year.
-not sure what[ hell bent ] is ,seems like a neg. opinion ,I just buy the hardware that is required to do the job , that I want the system to do @ the time , no more no less,
-people have different upgrade cycles , and they all cost.
-but this might be what he was talking about
-22k-
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=402663

 

[thescreensavers]

I did it back in the day when my desktop was still working, with 7600gt's at the time all I did was Play WoW and drivers were still buggy. Later on tried again but then it crashed when there was alot going on in the game (during raids only) so I went back with the single card.

 

[luv2increase]

Thus far, we have 40.54% of people who did or do own SLI/CF setups. I would hardly say that SLI/CF is just a niche market anymore. That is a very high number. I didn't think that so many people with low-mid range cards would be putting them in multi-GPU configs. I guess I was wrong.

 

[Grooveriding]

Thus far, we have 40.54% of people who did or do own SLI/CF setups. I would hardly say that SLI/CF is just a niche market anymore. That is a very high number. I didn't think that so many people with low-mid range cards would be putting them in multi-GPU configs. I guess I was wrong.

Try and use some common sense. This is a hardware interest forum, the results you get here are going to be a far cry from indicative of the overall computer gamer base.

Multi card setups are a small minority of pc gamers. Give it a rest.

 

[tincart]

I could simply try to insult you or make a sly remark regarding a correlation between SLI/Crossfire and having a small penis, but instead I'll write a (fairly) serious rhetorical response.

This is simply not true. Firstly, this assumes that you have a high-end multi-GPU setup, as any multi-GPU setup that can be matched in performance by a single-GPU setup would negate the status of the former as an 'enthusiast' solution, as an inherently 'non-enthusiast' solution could offer the same caliber of performance (again, regarding multi-GPU cards as multi-GPU solutions). So labeling any SLI/Crossfire setup as an enthusiast setup actually contradicts the label itself. Further, the situation of having a single card then adding another one months later would not make you any more of an enthusiast than someone who will simply keep a single high-end card. The only situation left is someone who spends a lot of money on multiple high-end cards, in which case you simply have a lot of money and/or a lot of time to put towards playing games. This doesn't necessarily make you more or less of an enthusiast than someone who doesn't have copious amounts of time and/or money, but, then again, if your life revolves solely around your computer, then I suppose it does. So yes, if you consistently have a multi-GPU setup consisting of high-end GPUs, I suppose you would be more of an enthusiast than people who would be running a multi-GPU setup based on older tech or, god forbid, has "only" a single high-end GPU.

I agree with all this completely. I was making a joke and the comment was not meant to be taken seriously. It was mainly for the benefit of people participating in the thread that spawned this one, since they would understand the joke from what I had posted there. You can read what I sad about that here.

And luv2increase: We have discovered here that 22 people who read Anandtech, browse this forum, and bothered to vote in a poll, have a multi-GPU setup. That's a pretty damn big number of users, I'd say.

 

[luv2increase]

Try and use some common sense. This is a hardware interest forum, the results you get here are going to be a far cry from indicative of the overall computer gamer base.

Multi card setups are a small minority of pc gamers. Give it a rest.

And so are high-end GPUs. Look at Steam polls. Only a super super small percentage of Steam users have high-end GPUs. When I say high-end, I mean >$200...

 

[f4phantom2500]

-[You're hell bent on getting a very high end rig]
-all I want to do is play the games I play @max. settings today[and for the last year] , not next year.
-not sure what[ hell bent ] is ,seems like a neg. opinion ,I just buy the hardware that is required to do the job , that I want the system to do @ the time , no more no less,
-people have different upgrade cycles , and they all cost.
-but this might be what he was talking about
-22k-
http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=402663

hell bent means like you won't let anything stand in your way; absolute determination. now i never said and do not believe that it is "useless" to spend ridiculous amounts of money on a computer...although 22k does seem exceedingly extravagant unless you intend to run a lot of scientific computing, which, with that quad fermi setup could seriously crunch some numbers, or are running like 6 monitors each at a super high resolution or something like that...like i said, to each his own. i just think that, for the average person who isn't running multiple monitors or what have you, SLI/CrossFire is not a necessity and has its own set of pitfalls that, unless your situation allows you to get a pair of cards at a good price, generally prohibits it from being the best value when considering the accompanying costs with this kind of setup in regards to the total cost of an equivalently powerful single-GPU setup. and yes, as i mentioned in point 1, the kind of setup like that 22k setup is the only situation in which SLI/CrossFire is necessary to achieve.

I agree with all this completely. I was making a joke and the comment was not meant to be taken seriously. It was mainly for the benefit of people participating in the thread that spawned this one, since they would understand the joke from what I had posted there.

I figured as much, but I hadn't read the other thread and I figured there would be some people who actually believe what you said. Besides, sarcasm is hard to detect on the internet.

 

[luv2increase]

The funny thing is that computer he referenced is more so a $4000 dollar computer rather than $22k...

 

[f4phantom2500]

The funny thing is that computer he referenced is more so a $4000 dollar computer rather than $22k...

Yeah I thought the RAID array was pretty ridiculous...if I was running that many VelociRaptors, or anything for that matter, I'd run a RAID 10 array, not RAID 0. Honestly I wonder whether or not that CPU is capable of keeping those GPUs fed with data at load, or if you'd run into any bandwidth issues...that's just a hell of a lot of computing power. But, like you said, I really don't think you need $22k to get that kind of power. Then again, it's his money so whatever. Gonna be hilarious when in 5 years that same power could be had for $500.

 

[tweakboy]

Nope, reason is its not double the performance.

its like 20 percent to 30 percent, around there
I love our body in that pic I would be happy with that,, ur still on a mission I guess,,, good

 

[biostud]

I had 2x voodoo2 8mb in SLI