Quote Originally Posted by hokiealumnus View Post
You would have to add a PLX chip to the Hero to make it a tri-SLI board. It's priced to come in under the GENE, so it's the entry-level Maximums VI board. How many entry-level boards do you know with the added BOM & engineering costs of a PLX chip can keep their price competitive?
Can you still run Tri-SLI like you could on the M5F? Even at x8 x4 x4 PCI-e 3.0 speeds, that would at least give people the option.

Also, how much are those PLX chips? I don't think they are as expensive as you are making them out to be.