until either SLI's performance closely matches the cost of 2 cards or i win the lottery i will never use it. face it unless you have money to burn its a waste of money.
forgetting money as a factor and bias'ness sli in general, will i get better performance. on a single monitor that has a max resolution of 1280x1024. and the reason i suggested sli 7800gt's is because instead of buying a 7900gt for the same price i figured id get more performance out of an sli 7800gt rather than A 7900gt.
I would never use SLI cause after a while you would have to upgrade any way... no matter how many you hook up together, the technology would change. So y spend so much on a sli setup???
and the reason i suggested sli 7800gt's is because instead of buying a 7900gt for the same price i figured id get more performance out of an sli 7800gt rather than A 7900gt.
i don't know how different prices are in the US but around here the pricing for the 7900gt looks around about the same as the 7800gt was just a week ago
most ppl will tell you SLI is not worth it. the performance gain from 2 video cards in gameplay is typically 25-30%...so unless you have money burning a hole in your wallet, hold off on SLI or Crossfire until ati or nvidia find a more efficient way to use 2 cards to create a 80+% performance increase compared to one card