Omg, sorry, but you did not understand my intention. All I want to say is: All guys with insufficient vram have to reduce settings!!! Some simply do not get that fact, when buying a sli setup! You can hang up 200 videocards in clod with no real benefit, when vram is 512 mb each. Some guys have sli and saying again and again, that the fact about counting only one vram size seems wrong to them. But it is not wrong. Buy sli, if your first card is still sufficient in most terms! Than you are able to benefit the more graphics power. And that is also, what you said, heavy hemi!
When your initial card is running out of vram for example, this should never lead to the decision to buy sli on that base. Sli just will be sufficient, if your initial card is up to date for your games. So, as I said, the sli is normally not a real solution to upgrade very old cards. It is more an upgrade for those, who wants to max out their fps. Normally, these guys are already having a good card. They know these conditions and their buying decision is okay. But i currently seeing sli user using 2x 285 gtx or 2x460s and are now claiming stutters in clod. I just say, that they simply do not know their own rigs' possibilties.
I also know kids without knowledge buying sli without thinking about the frame conditions to run it. They bought sli, because they saw a kid playing bf3 on youtube with the headline: sli rocks awesome, but they are not aware of some problems and the initial question, that you should ask yourself before buying sli upgrade. And all I can say about claimers here: You are just uninformed, when thinking to max out clod with an insufficient sli. And in case of clod, the recommended card requirements (even for sli) is VERY high. You need the vram, not only raw power.
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