ASUS ROG Xpander might be the craziest four-way SLI solution you've ever seen

This has to be one of the strangest after thoughts I have ever seen. Seriously an expansion card to allow for more PCI-E lanes to give all Asus Rampage III the ability to have 4-way SLI. I'm going out on a linb here, but would it have been a better ideal to maybe have engineered it with the ability to do 4-way SLI in the first place.

"Turns out the Rampage III Extreme motherboard unveiled by ASUS back in March won't support four-way SLI configurations right out of the box.

Perhaps in an effort to keep costs down, ASUS opted against equipping the board with NVIDIA NF200 bridge chips and a four-way SLI license. The decision makes sense, as very few users are ever going to utilise a four-way GPU configuration, and both the added expense and additional power draw (each NF200 chip eats up around 6W) are essentially drawbacks for 99 per cent of users."

Asus is happy that everyone buys the Rampage III and then pays extra for the expansion board. Now to think of it this is a brilliant cash cow. 

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