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Best nVidia or ATI/AMD SLI Graphics Card

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PNY QUADRO FX 4600 768MB W/ G-SYNC II OPTION CARD



AMD FireStream 9170 Workstation Video Card - PCIe 2.0 x16, 2GB GDDR3, STREAM Computing GPU



You don't even wanna know the price LOL.
 
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Those cards are for 3D rendering software \ development.
 
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Those cards are for 3D rendering software \ development.

Oh really? Sorry I don't know much about graphic cards I'm more of a software guy. Anyways good night.
 
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See how they are comparing 2x 280GT's in SLI against a single 4870X2. Yes the 4870X2 has 2 GPU's but it is still 1 card... 2x 280Gt compared to 2x 4870X2 will show you how badly It owns.

Keep in mind SLI = roughly 40% performance increase, while Crossfire = up to 80% increase.
yeah but that is the point - while ATI have 2 GPU's he ( the author of chart) compared to sli to have fair fight - 2 GPU's versus 2 GPU's. And yeah if you have small monitor then its useless to have SLI or Crossfire. and yeah - even if ATI is stronger nVidia have more fans and when nVidia will strike back ATI will fall... hard... (ouch)
 
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the thing is far as im aware ati have support for 4 gpu's where the most nvidia can handle is 3 (and even thats shakey) so i'd go with dual 4870x2 if i was willing to pay out that much money
 
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[sarcasm] yes i forgot this, thanks for pointing this out to me[/sarcasm]

i doubt the bloody thing gains any fps over a dual sli setup
 
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the thing is far as im aware ati have support for 4 gpu's where the most nvidia can handle is 3 (and even thats shakey) so i'd go with dual 4870x2 if i was willing to pay out that much money

Nvidia cards can use QUAD SLI but only on Vista. Attempting it on XP will just not work. Max on XP is dual/tri SLI depending on the cards.
 
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@ramu - yeah, that is where you're right - GX2 suffers from very weird virus: Microsluttering.
 
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