Even though Nvidia is my GPU maker of choice, I would love to see Intel show them who is King of the Hill.

I hope nSLI & Xfire choke.

This seems good for AMD. Nvidia is stupid for not licensing SLI to Intel. They would have sold far more GPU's by now if they had. I know they're proud of their chipsets but C'MON! AMD can only gain from this.

I always thought sli and xfire was just a scheme to sell more cards to
people with $ to burn,similar to "extreme edition"cpu's.And 1 + 1 does
not = 2 performance-wise[more like 1.3% increase,not to mention
driver problems,software incompatibilities,etc.].Most of us are lucky
to afford one decent card.Hell I use an evga 8600gts and all but the
final boss level of Crysis averages 30 fps,albeit with an e6750 and
3 gigs of cheap Gskill ddr2-800 running XP.

There is some false information in here. We have entered the era of multi gpu computing. Dual card solutions are actually very good for high frame rates. For those that state it false, go to toms hardware and load up a vga chart and multi gpu vga chart, look at the difference between a single 8800 GTX, and a dual 8800 GT SLI. A dual 8800 GT SLI setup would cost around 40-60 more than a 8800 GTX..But offers a MASSIVE performance boost.

Those who still claim multi gpu setups don't offer good performance, are just being delusional and not accepting the facts. Dual GPU solutions are indeed good, even better for crossfire. Which IMO and many others, scales much better the SLI does. But obviously it would be below nvidia still comparing two 3870's to two 8800 GT g92's due to the fact that nvidia has the upper hand in single card performance atm.

Regarding this article...I'm damn happy about this. Nvidia has been pissing me off with their chipsets. 650/680 had problems for intel based chipsets, then they release 750/780 which are basically a 650/680 with updated support for memory/cpu's and a br04 bridge chip to allow tri sli? Talk about a slap in the face, I don't see how others aren't insulted with the 750/780 release. Nvidia needs to realize that forcing people to pick up their chipsets is not a good thing...If they offered great chipsets, that would be one thing, but forcing a extremely hot (temperature wise) chipset with known issues down the throats of users who want dual nvidia cards is just wrong, and I hope they suffer for it. Their video cards are great, I want one and will always recommend them, but they need to get their act together and pull their head out of their tush. They aren't the kings they think they are.

"its multi-GPU technology will only function on chipsets supporting microprocessors by AMD, which currently cannot offer the same level of performance as Intel’s CPUs and are usually not gamers’ processors of choice"

Well thats right, but what would be faster?
Phenom 9600 + two 8800GT in SLI

OR

Q6600 + one 8800GT

?

The steam hardware survey has NEVER correctly identified my SLI rig, which I have had for some time (2x 7800GT).

I have heard this from numerous people as well, so I know I am not the only one. It was also mentioned in the comments section in your very own article on the steam survey.

I don't doubt that SLI usage is low, but the steam hardware survey is absolutely useless.

Nvidia sux!

First they bought Voodoo and killled them off.
Next they bought ULi and killed themoff
Now they bought Ageia and killed them off by not selling a dedicated PPU, while forcing many to get a $500 dollar card just to have physics.

I know the GeForce 8 will support physics, but do you think a low-end geforce 8 card will have a better physics as a high-end Geforce 8 card? Most likely not, so therefore it's the same thing.

Nvidia bought Ageia and too killed it off.

Great for you Nvidia, which company are you going to buy next and then too killed them off.

Hopefully this signals the end to the biggest ripoff in modern computing history ... some people fell for it though ... the notion that buying more graphics cards and stuffing them into your computer is acceptable.

mentioned in the article about the steam hardware survey, the results are skewed there. I was running SLI and the hardware scan only revealed one video card. I posted on the steam forums about it and a lot of people were having the same affliction. So don't pay attention to that aspect of the steam hardware survey

Probably the #1 reason why SLI and CF are not rampant is actually the lack of dual monitor support. There are a ton of folks who use dual monitors and absolutely cross off the list dual gpu's based on lack of support.

The 3870x2 changed this, but the traction of that card is still gradually growing. Nvidia seems to have promised dual monitor support on SLI for years, but has been technically challenged enough that they've failed to deliver, for reasons they don't discuss.

Change three things, dual monitor support, regular driver support so all games have some degree of boost, and make it somewhat affordable and you'd see dual card solutions take off.