PC World, Bad Article, Bad Benching.

Sorry, PC World, I know you're a big mainstream magazine and website, and I'm just a little independent blogger, but this article of yours blows. The opening discussion of SLI, Eyefinity, and multi-display support has more holes in the than my spaghetti strainer. Call it nit-picking if you want, I call it writing a halfway intelligent article. I'm insulted that you get paid to produce this pathetic, mindless drivel.

My two year old son does better fact checking than you. He knows damn well whether his cup has juice, water, or milk in it, and he can tell the difference between cereal, cookies, and cake.

Where to begin? How about the part where you say you need SLI to run more than two displays with Nvidia cards? How about just needing two graphics cards. SLI is running multiple identical graphics cards together for a 3D performance boost. You can run two dissimilar cards together, not linked with a bridge, and use the extra outputs.

But hey, enough about the fun details. How about this fact. I'm the next best thing to an EVGA fanboy. The only thing I'm missing is the compulsion to suggest their products when they'd be inappropriate, or otherwise not be objective about things like price/performance. That means I invariably have Nvidia cards. And I STILL say your benchmarks are over the top biased, moronic, pathetic, idiotic, and otherwise pure and utter garbage.

Crysis 2? Dirt? A grand total of two games and a couple of synthetic benches? What the hell are you smoking? I would be embarrassed to call that research. And that's completely ignoring the part where you picked games that nvidia tends to do well on. And the part where you benched the 560 Ti against a 6870, when a 6950 is much closer to the same price point. HD 6950 goes pretty much blow for blow against a 560 Ti.

Which card do I personally prefer? 560 Ti, definitely. But your methodology is trash. Of course, you turn around and show your bipartisan idiocy with declaring the HD 6970 superior to the GTX 570 based on features. If you're running multi-display gaming, whether it's 3DSurround or Eyefinity, you probably don't want 5760x1080 resolution running at low details, or at 3 frames per decade. Which is what's going to happen if you run single card Eyefinity. Maybe with iPhone's for the displays.

Last but not least... GTX 570 vs HD 6970 is somehow the "Mainstream gamer" market? That's hysterical. Last I checked, mainstream is usually... mainstream. The best gaming hardware census out there, Steam, shows those two cards combining to make up roughly 5% of DX11 capable GPUs. That, of course, is ignoring all the DX9 and DX10 cards still in use since console ports have killed the hardware industry. GTX 570 makes up .99% of all GPUs, 6970 falls under "Other", so who knows how much they make up. Last time I checked, that's not mainstream.

Article is laughable, guys. But at least it doesn't sound like advertising, since it's stupid all around. Or if it does, it's attempting to advertise direct competitors in the same article. Which would be in keeping with the quality you showed.