They really need to come up with a way for the drivers to support 6-GPU SLI using three of these GX2 cards in a tri-PCI-e system.

The GX2 will probably suck ass like the 7900GX2 thanks to shitty driver support. I want to know about the 9800GTX.

The aren't very good, 


Here are other better pics : http://infomars.fr/forum/index.php?showtopic=1286

Do you think you'd be able to run it on a Crossfire motherboard (seeing as it only takes up one slot) or would an SLi motherboard be required?

You did consider those pictures @ HardOP are computer generated?

Poor overall detail quality, very good small unimportant detail quality, very strange perspective, strange shadows and so on.

Ok so NV has changed the Ultra to GX2, then from there you get the normal line up of cards plus there models.

So, ok to be released the "9800 GX2" and so on... wouldn't it be oh so easy for NV to push the clocks a little bit and so on then release a "9900 XXX"? Can anyone else see that happening?

Nvidia doesnt need to release anything new yet, it can continue to develop and test at its own rate, because ati is quite frankly crap, thier products are nowhere near NV capability, so why release any new cards, the 8800 series are doing fine, and personally id liek to see a series of cards last longer then 6 months b4 they become obsolete anyway, im glad they are strecthing it out

Rebranded current-gen? No! The new 8800 GT and GTS (512MB) are really based on newer, 9th gen chips (65nm vs. 80 of old, a reworked memory interface, and perhaps there is more to it).

So, they gave a current-gen-ish brand for a new gen chip before, instead.

If at first you don't succeed....?

It is just a refresh to the 8800 series