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Originally Posted by biznatch
I don't know, tbh. I guess I don't wanna blow a huge amount of money on an amazing video card, but I'd like the increase in performance in a year when games get more demanding, by buying a second video card.
I guess it doesn't make much sense. I could, after all, save up and upgrade in a couple years to a kick ass GPU.
The money I'd save on the mobo could be used for a better processor.
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That would be the wiser course of action. To benefit notably from SLI you'd be in for 5-600 just for that. Not an economical use of your funds. For what it's worth my 2 year old 8800GTS with 320megs is still performing perfectly on everything I throw at it, with the eye candy turned up full. With, of course, the exception of flight simulator because that damn thing is coded so poorly that it'll be 2012 before a video card can crunch the numbers fast enough
And even on that, I only have to turn view distance down a little bit for smooth framerates. Video cards have become incredibly powerful these past few years. I really don't see much advantage to an SLI'd setup unless you're doing something crazy.