First SLI/Xfire setup - What was yours?

[deadjon]

Afternoon Folks,

Im curious - what was your first experience with SLI/Xfire - Mine was with the 6600GTs. Wonderful times.

As far as two cards go, I used to run a Matrox Mistique with a 3DFX Voodoo Card - Ultimate 2D/3D performance

 

[alrobichaud]

I didn't attempt sli until recently with my gtx 460's. I have had a couple of other sli capable cards( gt 120, 8800 gts, gtx 275) but never attempted it. It was not as easy as I had heard to set it up. Had a problem with my pc crashing everytime i enabled sli and upon restart the sli option was gone. Turns out it was the realtek onboard lan driver that was conflicting. After picking up a cheap dlink usb ethernet adapter, I was good to go. Going to attempt crossfire with an hd 6990 and 6970 as soon as the 6970 arrives...wish me luck!

**edit**

Got it up and running. Hitting 100FPS on ultra with AA on 1920x1080 in open combat with lot's of action and 140FPS inside such as the subway on the Operation Metro level in battlefield 3. This is at stock 6990 speed of 830MHz(gpu) and 1250MHz(ram). 3dmark11 score P12858 at overclock of 930MHz(cpu) and 1375MHz(ram).

I am in love.

 

[megamanx00]

My 3850s a while ago. Got my first one in late 08 on sale for around $80 (they were generally still over $110 at the time) thanks to the 4850 pushing it down and it was great for a while. Almost a year latter I added another one for a steal at $50 and that let me play most games at the time at 1680x1050 (struggled with crysis warhead though ). The second Vision Tech card was a bit of an odd one though as it had a 3870 PCB and faster clocks than my ASUS, but still used GDDR3 RAM that was clocked rather high. For some games I would have to overclock the ASUS card to match in order to reduce odd behavior though I could really only match the cores. Of course, after a while the ASUS card might artifact if it got too hot so that was a big pain ^_^