For those with more money than sense...

Whilst happily perusing this month's CustumPC issue, I was reading the article on Dream PC's, wherein the 'Vadim Xiphias' (who thinks of these names?) has two GTX Ultras on a P35 board which does NOT support SLI. What's the point? They seem to justify it by using them to run separate monitors (which is why, I thought, the higher end cards had two DVI slots in the first place) in games that support two GPUs, which, to show my ignorance, I thought was in itself a form of SLI/Crossfire.

Is there some reason not to just have an SLI board (with the option to turn it off), instead of this rather pointless overkill? However much fun that overkill can be...

Absolutely correct ! Allmost as big a waste as buying an Alienware pc imo !:ill:

Could use the second card for Physics acceleration *shrug*

Although yeah, more money than sense.

Just a ploy to get a whole bunch of people who don't know any better to buy it :rolleyes:

Maybe they were going to run folding@home on it?

Isn't folding cpu powered though? not gpu....

you can fold on gpgus - certainly ATi anyway.

Folding GPUs is hard - they usually crack or break before you get them all the way over.

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Originally Posted by hitman67

Folding GPUs is hard - they usually crack or break before you get them all the way over.

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lol :P