Yeah we don’t have to do it anymore since the gpu companies just decided that instead of having you buy 2 GPUs you can buy 1 and they’ll charge you for 2
Never got the opportunity, always wanted to though.
Someday I hope to get ahold of new old stock to be able to have that fresh experience
Chronos669
Crossfire never worked properly for me, always had blue screens and crashes. Sli however always worked wonders and I would play with sli profiles to get better performance in games all the time.
NuclearReactions
I missing looking forward to being able to afford it lol I stopped counting the amount of 2x 8600gts, 2x x1600xt, 2x hd2600 I’ve seen which was a very inefficient way of spending the money but sli/crossfire were just that cool!
azaza34
Yeah except I got a 7870 hd and a 7870 and this didn’t work so I get dumb
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DeadMonkeyHead
Yeah followed by the sheer disappointment of unsolvable incompatibility/glitches with some games and disappointing performance.
Electrical_Bee3042
Nope, never had the money to
nismo2070
I have a PC in my garage that I use to play music when I am out there doing stuff. It’s got 2 GTX 970’s in SLI. It’s complete overkill for what I use it for, but it looks cool! The performance boost isn’t much unless it’s a game that is actually optimized for SLI/Crossfire.
Ult1mateN00B
I was most excited in my life when I set up HD 3870 crossfire and got 20365 points on 3Dmark06. GTX 260 3-way SLI comes close second. While I still very much like building pc’s its nowhere near as exciting anymore.
KingHauler
I really wish crossfire and whatever nvidia called it worked well. I want it for no other reason than it’s neat.
nevadita
i did, i remember my HD 5850 crossfire.
then found no game ever took advantage of that.
Crysis still ran like shit
Firereign
Setting it up felt great, and that lasted until the disappointment of actually using it. SLI wasn’t much better. Getting substantial gains from either was less common than you’d hope, and you’d often get some unpleasant microstutter in the process.
I was done with either of them, 10 years ago. Oh, I still remember the comments at the time: why would you buy a 980 when you could buy two 970s? Usually made by people who had no experience dealing with the “fun” of multi-GPU setups. I was one of those with, and advocating for choosing, the 980.
BeerGogglesFTW
Back in like 2011 I has a HD 6850 CF… Only cost me about $260 total and would mop the floor with a lot of $300+ GPUs.
I bought the one, and then a month or so later saw the same deal for $130 and bought another. Really did double the FPS. I never noticed the microstuttering. I just know a year or two in, I was held back by the 1GB vRAM.
If they could have come up with a way to add vRAM between cards, then it would have truly would have been end game.
I don’t recall stuttering so much. Really only when the games became too demanding and I was getting sub 60 fps.
Da_Nope_Master
I still miss the look of my dual HD5770’s with a CF bridge on there. They ran hot as hell, and gave just a little more performance, but damn did it look cool.
Mister__Orange
Ohhh I loved my HD7870 setup! Playing the new Wolfenstein as a boss!
SnooGrapes7349
Enjoyed playing around with it. Never did get the chance to bridge 3 of them.
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I share that sentiment
I relive with nvlink regularly.
Yeah we don’t have to do it anymore since the gpu companies just decided that instead of having you buy 2 GPUs you can buy 1 and they’ll charge you for 2
[Yeah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50)
Never got the opportunity, always wanted to though.
Someday I hope to get ahold of new old stock to be able to have that fresh experience
Crossfire never worked properly for me, always had blue screens and crashes. Sli however always worked wonders and I would play with sli profiles to get better performance in games all the time.
I missing looking forward to being able to afford it lol I stopped counting the amount of 2x 8600gts, 2x x1600xt, 2x hd2600 I’ve seen which was a very inefficient way of spending the money but sli/crossfire were just that cool!
Yeah except I got a 7870 hd and a 7870 and this didn’t work so I get dumb
[deleted]
Yeah followed by the sheer disappointment of unsolvable incompatibility/glitches with some games and disappointing performance.
Nope, never had the money to
I have a PC in my garage that I use to play music when I am out there doing stuff. It’s got 2 GTX 970’s in SLI. It’s complete overkill for what I use it for, but it looks cool! The performance boost isn’t much unless it’s a game that is actually optimized for SLI/Crossfire.
I was most excited in my life when I set up HD 3870 crossfire and got 20365 points on 3Dmark06. GTX 260 3-way SLI comes close second. While I still very much like building pc’s its nowhere near as exciting anymore.
I really wish crossfire and whatever nvidia called it worked well. I want it for no other reason than it’s neat.
i did, i remember my HD 5850 crossfire.
then found no game ever took advantage of that.
Crysis still ran like shit
Setting it up felt great, and that lasted until the disappointment of actually using it. SLI wasn’t much better. Getting substantial gains from either was less common than you’d hope, and you’d often get some unpleasant microstutter in the process.
I was done with either of them, 10 years ago. Oh, I still remember the comments at the time: why would you buy a 980 when you could buy two 970s? Usually made by people who had no experience dealing with the “fun” of multi-GPU setups. I was one of those with, and advocating for choosing, the 980.
Back in like 2011 I has a HD 6850 CF… Only cost me about $260 total and would mop the floor with a lot of $300+ GPUs.
I bought the one, and then a month or so later saw the same deal for $130 and bought another. Really did double the FPS. I never noticed the microstuttering. I just know a year or two in, I was held back by the 1GB vRAM.
If they could have come up with a way to add vRAM between cards, then it would have truly would have been end game.
I don’t recall stuttering so much. Really only when the games became too demanding and I was getting sub 60 fps.
I still miss the look of my dual HD5770’s with a CF bridge on there. They ran hot as hell, and gave just a little more performance, but damn did it look cool.
Ohhh I loved my HD7870 setup! Playing the new Wolfenstein as a boss!
Enjoyed playing around with it. Never did get the chance to bridge 3 of them.