I've long felt that multi-GPU systems are playing with expensive fire, and even worse can, like audiophilia, lead to an anxious, ongoing preoccupation with whether you have the 'best' at the expense of actually enjoying what you're playing/hearing. Even so, I sympathise with people who invested both money and time into their SLI or Crossfire setups, only to now be told that one of the…
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Feature: "It just gnaws away at you, that doubt"
Apparently contrary forces, but suddenly complimentary. Are AMD and Nvidia about to become the yin and yang of the PC gaming world? Possibly. Rumour has it graphicsy bits of that DirectX 12 thing that arrives with Windows 10 will allow for asynchronous multi-GPU (graphics processing unit). In other words, you'll be able to use AMD and Nvidia cards in the same rig at the same…
I worked on a PC hardware magazine for years, and found myself as caught up in the bitter CPU and GPU wars that characterise that industry as much as the next man who cares a little bit too much about expensive circuitry, but even so I've never really fancied a multi-card system via NVIDIA SLI or ATI Crossfire. The noise, the expense, the technical potholes...…
We don't write about PC hardware all that often on RPS, unless it's something absolutely batshit or doomed to failure. In the parts of my life that don't involve obssessively checking whether anyone's said something rude about us in our comments threads though, I keep a detached eye on what's new in silicon heaven. Today, it's leaked details on the next card from current 3D…