Apparently Gigabyte isn't the only company who figured out how to strap two 6600GT GPUs onto the same video card. Pictures of the new Asus Design have leaked around the web as well. You may recall our less than favorable review of Gigabytes 3D1 a few days ago.
Like the Gigabyte 3D1, you will still need an SLI-capable motherboard and there still are no prices set on the card either. Perhaps there is some price advantage to buying a multi-GPU video card over just buying two 6600GT's, but until we see these things show up on retail shelves, we will just have to wait and see.
OK now ready for the twist? Apparently you can run two of these video cards in the same system, unlike the Gigabyte solution. Whether or not they run in SLI mode has yet to be determined, but you can see a picture of this in action here . Note the board design is significantly different than the 3D1 - even though both surprisingly use the same color PCB.
Gigabyte's board, seen here also lacks the dual 14-pin connectors along the top of the board which we can only guess will be used for additional DVI/D-Sub inputs or a ribbon variation of the SLI bridge. NVIDIA's reference designed SLI video cards use a ribbon connector opposed to the PCB bridge. Interestingly enough, you can also see the traces from each individual GPU going down to the PCIe interface; each GPU still does the majority of its interaction over the SLI interface opposed to the video card.
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