Shinobi-san said:
The only factor you should really consider is which card runs the games you want to play better? You can check the numerous benchmarks on the net for those answers. Once you find that out then I would say thats your answer. You shouldnt rule out the 660ti simply because of no sli support. Sli/Crossfire isnt really a factor unless you have actual plans to do it in the very near future. If you thinking to yourself "Maybe in a years time i can buy another 7950 for cheap instead of the 8950 etc." then its really not a factor. By the time you want to do that, you are better off selling your current card and then getting another single card of the latest generation. SLI/Crossfire is only a factor if you plan on doing it right now or in the next month or two. People do dual gpu setups because they not content with single gpu performance....its not a way to future proof your system. You are always better off with a single card IMO. Just putting that out there |
Couldn't agree more.
Unless the player is all over the map as far as which games they're playing or plan to play within the next year or so between upgrades, I second going with what runs your current games best.
And as someone who never bothered with an SLI/XFire upgrade (with the idea in mind that it was a viable upgrade) as better cards were available in the same price range once the old fell out of production, I agree there's no point in doing a multi card set up unless that's the initial build or the plan over the next few months (when prices won't change much if at all) due to a lack of funds under the "buy half now, buy the other half later" mentality.
