alvino
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I am sticking to nVidia. Better drivers IMO, better budget cards 'cause im poor, Ubuntu supports it better.
Eh, sorta. NVIDIA's drivers aren't that great anymore. The last great Forceware driver was probably 66.93.
EDIT>>> Yeah, NVIDIA does have good Linux support though.
SLI is way better than CrossFire IMO. I have had experience with both and CrossFire didn't impress me.
Yeah, SLI is more matured than CrossFire. ATI has revamped CrossFire so that it's internal, which is good, but it's a bit too late despite the fact that using two connector bridges was better than SLI's one.
The original CrossFire was horrible though. The external dongle completely limited you to using a single-link DVI monitor, which wasn't good for those who had 30" monitors.
The good thing about CrossFire is that you can mix GPU's as long as it's part of the X or HD series. So you can mix a X1800 XT with a X1900 XT CrossFire Edition card and it'll still work. SLI on the other hand requires you to have the same card of the same model. A while ago they loosened it up a bit and allowed different brants to be used, but the models still had to be the same. So you could use a 7900 GT from eVGA and a 7900 GT from BFG and it'll work fine, where as previously you had to use two 7900 GT's from the same manufacturer.
In my opinion, SLI is the way to go for multi-GPU, but CrossFire is starting to catch up. It'll only take time before we see CrossFire and SLI battle.