SLI....Is It Worth It

Well, the benchmark test in WiC is more like a stress test... Barely ever does the FPS in the actual game itself drop so low....

 

I think one of the things that people are missing here is the using the SLI so that you can play new games at max resolution a year or two from now.

Sure a single 8800 does well at max now but what about in a year or two?

Are you going to buy a whole new laptop to get the latest video card in a year?

In my mind SLI is about making the machine more future proof. My 9750 still runs great and grinds through all my business apps with no problem. But my 7800 card does not do real well with current games at high resolutions.

I have held off on a 9262 to see how the SLI shakes out. In my mind paying the $700 extra for an additional card is a much better investment than buying a whole net laptop every year. This is of course assuming that the SLI driver is OK and stable.

 

daikyu I agree, though I bought a XPS M1730 so I had no other choice than to go with SLI, to me SLI feels more future proof than having one single 8800m GTX.

But World in Conflict benchmark test is just a stress test. I mean I can run World in Conflict almost maxed on my old XPS M170 with a Go 7800GTX 446/1200. Surely the benchmark test brings it down to a single digit when that big explosion occur. But never in game I have experinced such a slow down. Yes I run WIC just for fun testing that old laptop at 1920x1200 and I have around 30 fps except when atomic bomb explosions occur. So surely a single 8800m GTX can max that game out at 1920x1200 when my old go 7800GTX does it without any AA, though 2xAF.