Some people ask - why buy this card combo?

Answer: For the same reason you would buy a car that can do two or three times the speed limit:
a: Because you want it and its pure decadence, if you can afford it buy it.
b: because its an incredible piece of technology to showcase if you're a fan
c: Sometimes its so nice to have the best.
d: Won't have to worry that next weeks title won't run due to lack of power
e: It'll fetch a good price on Ebay when you are bored of it.
f: Because its AWESOME (or as they say in the west country : "tha's lush that is my babber".)

QED

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Enjoy

Pete

I have an 8800 GTS (old gen, 320MB) and it's not the graphics that hold that game up, it's the CPU power and FSB bandwidth (or lack of).
I bought myself a quad-core Q6600 and noticed a sharp uptake in framerate and playability in Supreme Commander - at 1280x1024 with all the trimmings.
Crysis, on the other hand, gained nothing much from the jump in CPU power. That bastard probably needs a top-end card from 2010 to run smooth with everything maxxed out.
But I refuse to go dual-GPU. The price is ridiculous, the power cost is twice horrendous and the gain is not all that remarkable given the constraints.
I also see no reason to go dual-GPU since all I have to do is wait a year and the next-gen does just as well if not better - and with less driver issues.
I put a lot of faith in Nvidia when they bought out 3Dfx and nabbed the makers of the original SLI, but I feel that Nvidia has not been up to the challenge.
The initial version of dual-GPU where simply a joke, and each new iteration of it still starts out with drivers that are slower than single-GPU configurations.
It's madness, I say. Madness.

Name some games?
Company of heros
Supreme Commander
Crysis, and thats off the top of my head!

Why buy this card? besides it being the fastest card on the block, that may jsut allow someone on earth to play crysis "twimtbp'd", some people only buy a new machine every few years, so for them, getting a card seen by many as extreme is important, as inthree yearstime it will be truly struggling.

Also, most are still on 19" montiors,with the relatively low res that comes with that, but some are on much higher resolutions, so need much more power than normal. And where exactly do you think lower end gpu's come from. Mid and bottom rnge gpu's almost always are a direct division of their high end parts.

Sorry, i thought most of the above was obvious. There's clearly a complete sucker or two still around.

"..Asus Z7S-WS board, which we exclusively unveiled to the world earlier this month.."

Unveiled where? Nothing turns up in a
search...

Its fairly simple really ... its just AMD/ATI trying to pee that bit higher up the wall than nvidia ...

Remind me again, what is the current market uptake of dual graphics? like 0.1%?
less??

Why exactly is Nvidia and former ATI so heavily invested in dual socket graphics?

Is it because they are taking/taken baby steps towards multi core GPUs & need some dosh and some test subjects?

What exactly is so great about having two extra noisy cards that suck more wattage than my vacum cleaner in a PC?

Which games actually require that?

Don't wanna sh^^ in anyones cornflakes but if you buy this crap, you're a sucker.

The RAGE Fury MAXX was ATI's first dual-GPU card. I just thought I'd point that out.

Now if you add a physics card that machine might actually run Crysis with a decent frame rate.