Will Multi-VPU require an ATI motherboard chipset?

[Charmaka]

So - if you're trying to run two monitors, you're gonna be screwed* (if the passthrough connector is taking up a DVI slot on each card)?

*Well, you'll at least end up having to swap cables between running a dual monitor desktop, and single screen games?

Kludgey IMHO, if this info is true.

If you've got dual DVI on both cards anyway, and data's being sent to both cards anyway, what's to stop you plugging one DVI monitor into each card?

And I agree, the throttling-thing sounds crazy from a technical viewpoint, although there may be marketing justifications for such a move. As to game profiles, I can kinda see why they'd be necessary given that different games have different balances between pixel shaders, vertex shaders, texturing etc, I suppose,