Originally posted by: Ackmed
Nothing BFG said wasnt true. You may have to buy a new PSU, mobo, cooling fans, etc. And there are more bugs with SLI, than vs. a single card. Especially with WS LCD's.
Just because you dont seem to have problems, doesnt mean other SLI users dont. Have you read NV's forums? Lots of people have had, and still have problems. That being said, I would imagine most of them are user error, as I believe is the case with most video card bugs from any company.
That's the
point of my post Ackmed. By calling my assertions that SLI works very well and trouble free "railings" and saying there are "many serious known issues" BFG implies that what I say on the matter can't be trusted.
Be me stating I've run a multitude of games from the last 6 years, with or without game profiles, on three different SLI versions and two different motherboards, I directly refute his claims. My claims are much more likely to be true because a. they're based on actual experience b. I actually have a couple sli sets and can easily test any game for these supposed "serious issues.
Other users inability to configure hardware and software correctly is irrelevant, and all you see on user boards is people who have problems looking for help, not people who know what they're doing posting "Aha- see it works".
BFG should list these "number of serious known issues" if he's going to post that SLI is a "waste" because end users need to evaluate whether they'll be an issue for them, not just hear "SLI is bad news".
For example here are the SLI issues I know about:
1. Doesn't work, at least for some people, with Windows 2000. I looked for use stats and found less than 20% of people have Windows 2000. The HL2 user stats, all 1.5 million people, showed only 4% of people have Windows 2000 that play HL2. So for most people this "serious issue" is a non issue.
2. The widescreen lcd issue you love to quote. Most people don't have widescreen lcds, 99.9% of games don't support widescreen, and even the ones that do can be played at standard aspect ratio fine. So for most people, most games, this "serious issue" is irrelevant as well.
3. Riddick will not play at all in SLI. I've seen this as have many others. I've seen one review where it's been benched in SLI, and one user on a forum who said he got it to work in SLI, but IMO this is an "issue" for most people. So we have a game you can't use SLI on yet that nVidia has promised a driver update to fix. Till they do, it's an issue.
Not a very long list of what I know, is it? Yet BFG states people should give up the huge framerate advantages over any hardware currently available because of all the "serious issues". I can tell you right now I personally would not give up the 19X14 gaming because I can't play Riddick yet in SLI?
