For those with more money than sense...

[Kilmatead]

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...

[Colossous]

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

[aidanjt]

Could use the second card for Physics acceleration *shrug*

Although yeah, more money than sense.

[V|per]

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

[GAteKeeper]

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

[V|per]

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

[BUFF]

you can fold on gpgus - certainly ATi anyway.

[hitman67]

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

[Shmee150]

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

lol