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greenmedic88 on 27 November 2013
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Pemalite said:

Still a massive framerate reduction when moving from high to ultra quality settings.
Battlefield 3 was the same though, things like HBAO can take a toll, some people can't really tell much difference on such subtle improvements anyhow.

Plus, who says you only had to have a single 5870? :P You can pick them up for the cost of a years worth of Xbox Live! Gold today.
The other benefit is, some people really don't care much for 60fps, so you can always drive up the image quality. - Personally I wan't both, rarely do I get either due to the resolution I run at.

That's always going to be one of the advantages of PC building; you can always pick up old parts whether used or excess inventory for the price of a song although I'm no longer turned on to the idea of picking up one video card today and then picking up another for a lot less two years later when I'd rather just buy a current card with more VRAM and additional features. The big problem with crossfire and SLI beyond increased power requirements, additional temp management, etc. is that you can't increase the amount of available VRAM by adding more cards. 

2GB cards are available in the mid-range today whereas high end cards from just a few years ago had half that.

All that aside, I still consider 60fps to be something of a personal standard. I've played games like Crysis years ago with the quality turned up at the cost of framerates, which may be fine for the wow/pretty effect, but not so much for smooth playability. If all one cares about is the appearance rather than how smooth a game plays, that's a big indicator that they're more benchmark players than gamers.