Quad GPUs - its the stuff that a gamers dreams were made of a couple of years back. However, with the release of dual GPUs on a single graphics card, both AMD and nVidia have managed to make it happen. In fact, nVidia has had some previous experience with their 7950GX2 and today, they tranfer that technology to the recently released game killer- the 9800 GX2.

We've already talked about the 9800 GX2 in our ASUS card review and today, with the help of MSI, we have it running in SLI configuration. If you remember correctly, when nVidia originally released SLI technology, it came with a lot of headache. I remember having a very hard time getting the same card from two different manufacturers to run in SLI. The good news is that SLI in its current form is relatively headache free. Even with Quad GPUs, we had no issues running the ASUS and MSI cards together.

Lets quickly talk about the MSI N9800GX2-MD1G card before we head to the testbed and benchmarks. The card comes packaged in a huge box and inside you find the power converter cable, the DVI-VGA adapter as well as an HDMI cable. Unfortunately, no game is bundled with it.

Just like the ASUS 9800 GX2, the MSI card is also a stock nVidia design with an extra sticker added on the back side.