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[Macadamia]

The only people who look bad here is rude mouthbreathing fanboys like you.

I have consistently said I will buy whatever platform gives the best performance. I have owned more ATI and NVIDIA cards than you probably have had in your entire life.

I have actually used Crossfire setups before for day to day computing. (have you? How many crossfire setups have you owned??)

Unless it has changed dramatically since my last 2 x1950xtxs, then crossfire has artifacting, glitches and zero performance increase on some less common games. I owned several games that I had to disable one video card because Xfire was WORSE than a single x1950xtx.

If this has changed and Xfire is now universally compatible then great sign me up, but so far I only see more evidence that it still has problems.

I specced 2 3870X2s to 16*10 widescreen users, and they were happy with it. I've played with a 9800GX2, I'm happy with it. I don't own either since I don't even game anymore, but jumping from one excuse to the other doesn't give you extra credence.

Crossfire was a mess in 2007. Undeniable. I wouldn't touch any config made with it then. In 2008 it got its act back up completely, which was the basis I made the recommendations. Why the fuss suddenly about driver profiles, AFR, etc when SLI/CF has been there, been much worse for so long and virtually nobody whined, this I'm VERY curious.