Easy tiger, each to their own methods.
It's a weird one for me tho, since I just spent some google time, why there aren't a good handful of 570 sli reviews.
I don't expect much more than the 480 sli reviews, but even so. Lack of benching, lack of results, lack of reviews. I don't think it's too early.
Indeed. TBH this is what I am trying to get across. No review or benchmark is really going to give you the answer. The very fact that reviews are usually done once and give you a pile of pics and figures doesn't usually equate to exacting performance in your computer, in your house in your bedroom. Each of the setups will have its positives and its drawbacks.
For example, these are just a few I have worked out from reading reviews.
Crossfire scales better (we all know that) and thus in reviews the 6970 will likely come out on top in 'scored' results.
SLI has a few advantages. Firstly you get CUDA and Physx thrown into the mix which again, will improve a good selection of games. Enabling Physx on say, Mafia 2 will bring the Radeons to a crawl. Running Just Cause 2 (which uses Havok for the physics engine and CUDA to increase performance) will bring out the best in a Geforce. Radeons are crap at Metro, ETC, ETC. Radeons are better at Stalker Pripyat, ETC ETC.
The 570 is cooler and quieter. It just goes on. For every disadvantage of one there is a disadvantage for the other. The sorts of questions he is asking, IE
"Which is better?" is absolutely and utterly impossible to answer without being a mind reader. Only
he knows what he wants and what he is looking for, and that could be a boat load of things.
Firstly if he wants to run Vantage a lot and do a bit of posing? the 6970CF will probably be the better option for boasting with (given the results against 580 CF).
If he's into folding? no brainer.
If he likes Just Cause 2 and loves a bit of Physx goodness? no brainer.
It just seems to me from what I can gather that he is asking OC3D to give him all of the answers. Which TBH is impossible to do. OC3D can only really go so far before he has to make his own decision. His decision would likely be based on what he wants, mine would be based on what I want. Over the past six months I, personally, have come to the following conclusions.
I can't be without Physx as four of my top ten games all use it and I know how Radeons are crap for it.
I wouldn't ever use CF or SLI again *unless* one of the cards *alone* could be muscular enough to belt out max settings
on its own as Crossfire and SLI simply aren't reliable enough. OC3D uses a set of the same games to show performance. However, they don't use brand new games and then say "hmm, simply doesn't work". This is a side of Crossfire and SLI that people just don't get to see and I don't blame OC3D for that. Expecting an entire review that takes days just to answer the questions
I have would be taking the wee a little bit.
I've tried to point out the pros and cons of both SLI and Crossfire to people using my own real life experiences with both. I ran SLI 8600GTS and Crossfire 5770. SLI had tearing issues among other problems and Crossfire refused to work all of the time and needed fettling and fiddling. This is what brought me to my conclusion that I would never use either again unless one card was man enough to do the job without me having to rely on something that is driver based. Heck, we all know how crap drivers can be.
So that's about it really. Apologies if I sounded a bit crappy, that's not what was intended. However, it seems to me that Murph is relying on OC3D to make the decision for him. Sometimes you just need to take the plunge and if you make a mistake learn from it. I do empathise that the kind of cash we are talking about here is a big decision, but TBH if I was in any doubt
whatsoever I would avoid both and go for a single powerful card solution.
But again, that's me. That's what I would do based on me and my experiences.
Im sorry but if compare them on identical pc's with not just synthetic benchmarks also but some actual real life test in there that would be little more scientific also alot info out there is corporate sponsor pumped up stats
My post should have answered that but if not? You're not going to find any one to cater to all of your needs dude. Sometimes you just need to 'suck it and see'. If life hands you lemons? well, all you can really do is suck on them.
