I fail to see the point of these sorts of cards frankly. The whole point of Sli is having a future upgrade option isn't it? I can certainly understand the show-off factor, but really...
The thing I'd worry about would be if it requires special drivers. Usually when thats the case your chances of keeping up to date arn't so hot.
I've had unpleasant experiences trying to get two different Gigabyte 3D1 systems running before. Both failed horribly. In one case it was returned, as not only wouldn't it get past post, but the screen was corrupted badly. it eventually was replaced with a different mobo + x800xl, which ended up faster, $200 cheaper and quieter. :/
Question is...will that work in SLI?!
well if that card no, there is a quad-sli motherboard in the works;
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=475438
so maybe gigabytes next dual chip card may potentially support it (assuiming that MB allows 4 card SLi, not just 2x 2 card sli) - it would be a logical assumpsion if they have cracked 4x sli for single cards they could do 2x sli for dual. I remember reading somewhere that MSI's scrapped dual 6800 was doing to support dual, but not sure how true that was, may have just been for two monitors.
Does anyone know if CrossFire has provisions for more than 2 cards? I know radeons are designed to work in upto 16 (?) card combinations when used in military aps, so I would have thought something similar would be possible on consumer level cards. I can see a quad x1600 system being quite nice for the price. :smile:
