Personally, I never recommend SLI *or* Xfire to people when building a gaming rig unless they're going for some bleeding edge quad monitor setup thats impossible without it.
Even brand new games run at 1080p/60 on a decent single card unless you crank *all* the settings to the max. There's quite a few things that barely impact image quality but greatly impact GPU load that most people honestly cant tell are on or off unless staring at side by side screenshots. It's just not worth all the incompatibilities, stuttering issues, screen tearing, and fiddling with settings/profiles to max out all those sliders on top of an extra $400 for a second top-tier card unless you're seriously into it. There's no such thing as futureproofing when it comes to PCs, and you're honestly going to have a better experience most of the time if you save that $400, go single card, and 2-3 years down the road use that $400 to buy a *new* top of the line single card.
Even brand new games run at 1080p/60 on a decent single card unless you crank *all* the settings to the max. There's quite a few things that barely impact image quality but greatly impact GPU load that most people honestly cant tell are on or off unless staring at side by side screenshots. It's just not worth all the incompatibilities, stuttering issues, screen tearing, and fiddling with settings/profiles to max out all those sliders on top of an extra $400 for a second top-tier card unless you're seriously into it. There's no such thing as futureproofing when it comes to PCs, and you're honestly going to have a better experience most of the time if you save that $400, go single card, and 2-3 years down the road use that $400 to buy a *new* top of the line single card.
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