I am in the market for purchasing a few new cards for my computer.  I use Max 9 for school and for work, but I am also an avid video game enthusiast, so, I never felt comfortable buying a quadro card because I always heard they were great for max but horrible for games.

My question is, does Max 9 or the newer versions benefit from SLI cards?  I know that unless you have quadro the video card is only used for viewports (rendering is all CPU, no GPU), but will the viewports even take advantage of the SLI?

I currently have a single EVGA 7800 GT 256mb PCI-E that runs max great.

I am looking at 2 EVGA 9500 GT 512MB PCI-E 2.0 cards. (about 70 bucks each on NewEgg)

Any suggestions or comments?  Money is definitely an issue, otherwise I would probably go for a high-end Quadro.

Thanks!

Would probably be better posted in the hardware forum - that’s where most discussions of this nature take place.

The simple answer is NO. Max does not / cannot use SLI, so spending the cash on a better single card would probably be a better option, unless there are other compelling reasons for going SLI.

Read some of the other threads there - you may find much better “bang for your buck” than a Quadro.

Max 4.2 through 2013.
XP-64 (SP2)
NVidia 9800GTX-512 (Driver 266.58).
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, 8Gb Ram, DX9.0c.