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Originally Posted by 5PointOHNO
Any NVidia card back to the 6600 (Plain ol' 6600) will work in SLi. And crossfire limits you to either the X850, X1800XL, X1800XT. In ATi's defense, they were hit with the news of SLi very swiftly and had to design Crossfire from the ground up, whereas NVidia acquired the technology from 3DFX 6 years ago when they bought them.
SLi was around years ago, I believe the first mag I read with cards in SLi was in 1998, but it flopped, there was no market back then, since most onboard cards could play most games.
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Theres a lot more to it than that...
In comparrison, SLi is s</b>hit compared to to crossfire.
SLi is ONLY works when there is supporting drivers installed and only in games/appz where there is code specifically written to take advantage of the SLi mode.
Crossfire on the other hand, is ALWAYS there. As its hardware support, not software that it needs to work. The video cards bios connect to each other.
As for supported cards...u need 1 card that is crossfire ready...which has stemmed from the X800....than u can use ANY other card in conjunction with it, like an X850 non corssfire, X850PT, X850Pro, X800Pro, X800PT etc etc etc....
Crossfire > SLi
-Jay
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