A brief look at three-way SLI @ The Tech Report

This is what you would call, Insane.

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At this point, my editor, if I had one, would probably be clobbering me. No doubt I could more profitably be spending my time reviewing hardware that most folks might actually, you know, want to purchase. And heck, I'm getting really close on that review of the 45nm Core 2 Duos—honest. But I couldn't resist a brief detour involving a howling phalanx of GeForce 8800 Ultras, mostly because I wanted to see whether we'd finally found the hardware equal to the task of making Crysis run smoothly at high resolutions and quality levels.

there is at least 1500 bux with of video card on that board, not to mention the 1200 Watt PSU.

What you get for your trouble, of course, is one of the most astoundingly powerful GPU configurations anywhere, with a total of 2.25GB of GDDR3 memory dedicated to video RAM and over 1.7 teraflops of raw shader power. In fact, don't even bother going for a three-way system unless you're going to hook it up to at least a 30" display with something like 2560x1600 resolution. Anything less would be a waste in most of today's games. You're going to want to push display resolutions and quality levels to the max in order to make the most of three-way SLI.

Funny how companies will do something just because they can.  Then again we're glad they did.  

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