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The 550 is good value for the money and will allow you to play most or almost any game at 1920 x 1080 with moderate filtering. If I can do with a 4870, then the OP should be even more capable. And to be fair, and no offense toward you, unless he genuinely wants to pay the additional premium, he doesn't "need" to pay more. What might be 'cheap' or 'reasonable' to us may not be so to him.
Last edited by Terronium 12; 15 May 2011 at 01:57.
If your motherbboard of choice is tri SLI capable they should be both a dual card bridge and a triple included with accessories...
You simply install your drivers from NV (only one driver needed) andf once that's done you will get a pop up from NV Control panel where you enable SLI and what card you want to do your Phsx..normal default is the top card..I personally enable the bottom card but whatever.
Furthermore try to get cards that have an external exhaust or you will find your top card will run considerably hotter than the bottom card..or have a side Fan fitted in the case to blow air over the cards.
And make sure also that your PSU can power the cards and is also SLI accredited...and a good one like Seasonic/Corsair/Antec etc
Cheers
I'd beg to differ, despite my own saying of "moderate filtering" if I can run Crysis on Very High, 1920 x 1080 and get a playable frame rate then surely a 550 Ti should do a much better job. I also fail to see how a 4870 is irrelevant; in fact the only two irrelevant things are it's lack for native DX11 support and it's 512MB memory bus. The card itself still handles everything I've thrown at it.
Impossible. A 4870 @ 1080p w/ Very High would get around 25FPS, seeing as you only have a tiny 512MB, that would drop to around 20. Even my 6870 can only hit 36FPS or so which is barely playable. And what about Dragon Age 2, The Witcher 2, Crysis 2, Metro 2033, AvP? You can't play any of those with DIrectX 11 or even 9 with the settings jacked up @ 1080p with a 550. A 560 is just enough.