Is it better to Crossfire/SLI your old card rather than upgrade to a newer one?

It's usually better just to get a new card. For instnace if you have a 8600 GT, it's better to actually buy a 8800 GT or 3870 then to SLI two 8600 GT's. I only reccomend SLI/Crossfire for the mid-high end cards and if you're playing at a resolution of 1440x900 or higher.karasill

That, and SLi is not really utilized by very many games as of yet. Yes it's a great techn0logy, but if you installed a crap pile of games on your computer and found out that only a very few of them will actually increase in performance with SLI, you'd be pretty pissed.

Just upgrade to a better card... I'm going from SLI'd 7900GT's to a single 8800GTS and I expect drastic visual improvements and performance.

[QUOTE="karasill"]It's usually better just to get a new card. For instnace if you have a 8600 GT, it's better to actually buy a 8800 GT or 3870 then to SLI two 8600 GT's. I only reccomend SLI/Crossfire for the mid-high end cards and if you're playing at a resolution of 1440x900 or higher.XSlayerX2006

That, and SLi is not really utilized by very many games as of yet. Yes it's a great techn0logy, but if you installed a crap pile of games on your computer and found out that only a very few of them will actually increase in performance with SLI, you'd be pretty pissed.

Just upgrade to a better card... I'm going from SLI'd 7900GT's to a single 8800GTS and I expect drastic visual improvements and performance.

So for Crossfire/SLI to be worth it, you would need two $200+ video card? Does it age well?thecasualnoob

This is my thoughts on the matter.

I own a crossfire mobo, I would say SLI and Crossfire is future-prof, when GFX price goes down I can buy another and run a crossfire rig instead of buy better card and junk the old one.

(As for now I have a HD3850 and they will drop in price quite soon and then I'll put two of those In CF.)

Many games utilise CF/SLI, most newer games does, maybe not flawless but they do.

And by all new drivers and game updates poppi´n out every month or so games that utilize CF/SLI usually get improvements as CF and SLI get more and more popular these day´s.