9800GX2 is an expensive joke, according to Inq

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Most of the info was allready there yes, but to me this is still kinda shocking.
I wonder why nvidia went through with releasing this card... It seems like they desperately want to keep the single slot performance crown, regardless of how much it costs and whether or not they will sell a single piece of this card.

Well, act of desperation as ATI likes to call that. Let's just wait for K|np|n to try to beat others(read: ATI) with GX2, I bet it ain't going to happen. 3DMark is already ruled by ATI anyway.

Since when did 3DMark06 points / $ become the industry standard for GPU price performance? I guess real world gaming performance has no relevance these days...

Define real world. Crysis? Crysis my ass. Most people just get these cards for benching, very high-end isn't really for gamers, at least not SLI/CF systems. Sure one of these cards would be nice, but all the hassle with drivers/games just makes these cards useless to average joe. Thus, gaming has to be done with Single-GPU card and w/o SLI/CF to avoid problems. Damn, these "Performance crown!11"-cards are just useless for over 90% of "gamers".