Actually alot of people do buy SLI and Crossfire boards. The market for high end boards is small so this makes good business sense. Why spend alot of R&D money creating a new high end graphics board while still having crappy drivers when you can improve the drivers and just sell a high end motherboard with more PCIe lanes? After all in the future customers will demand more PCIe lanes and NVidia obviously needs better drivers and better SLI support so why not invest in that instead of a high end GPU that's only gonna be on the shelves for a couple of months until they introduce a new generation of graphics cards that they already have another team working on? In the end the people who spend more than $400 on graphics boards just want the fastest solution they can afford and they don't care if it's from one card or 8 cards, or the effect it has on their electric bill it seems.

The purpose of the Ultra High end is just to give the company the image that they have the fastest solution, not practicality. Although it gives a company high margins the volume is low. Even in the 90's SLI was more of an effort to sell video cards in general because if you chose a Voodoo 2 now instead of a TNT you could get another one latter and double your performance. Of course not alot of people got that second card but people still bought the Voodoos because they could connect a second one latter on if they wanted too.

I really don't think this will make people buy more counsels. Seriously the PS3 has the most powerful GPU and it's basically a 7800GTX, although that doesn't seem to matter since the Wii and 360 are outselling it. People buy a counsel because they don't have to upgrade it or worry about Windows Vista, they just stick in the game and play it. People who want the best and highest Graphics will always go with a PC.

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