Zotac whipping up dual-GPU GTX 460?

That is when you remove the heatsinks and move to a liquid cooling solution so that you can fit these in your system. Or you know, wait for the 5970 to come out.

Well, I get up to the woah wagon. No need of a new mobo to have two gtx 460. It will sell like hotcakes.

Olivia Munn comes to mind..

oh ffs, I meant 6970, I fail at being snarky...bah!

mhm 6870 or dual 460's mhm

lol thats toooo much power, when will you actually use it all?

^ Constant 60 fps all the time in every game. But crysis :-S

Be interesting to see how this will compare price wise to a crossfired 6850/70 and performance wise to the 6950/70. If this card is competitively priced which I'm sure it will be it might be an good choice especially for those seeking one card for Nvidia's Surround Vision & 3D as DBZ points out.

The ATX standard means that seven PCI slots can be accomodated on standard motherboards.
Any board (SLI capable, or vendor ID driver hack) that has it's primary and secondary PCIe x16 slots seperated by two spaces/PCI/PCIe can run dual triple-slot cards. An example here (light blue PCIe x16 slots seperated by two PCIe x1 in this case).
Some boards also allow for the bottom PCIe x16 (if the board has three x16 slots) to be used in conjuction with the primary graphics slot. Some will only work at x4 lanes electrical, but many (especially enthusiast) allow for x16 or x8 use.

A chagrined Aussie? You must be a recent immigrant.

Wow! If it's priced properly, it could seriously hamper GTX 480 sales methinks.

Although the HSF on the card would probably be pretty massive and sound like a jet engine or something. Unless it was liquid-cooled, which would probably make more sense IMHO.

If it is priced < 300$ it may make some sense to go with it, otherwise I am unsure it will hold much value once AMD and later nVidia refreshes their product lines.

Will the dual gpu card deliver the same performance as two cards in SLI mode? Is this the same or there is some difference?

After the release of the new Radeion, a single 460 doesn't seem to be a good idea.

But I hope that the Radeon is just as good in Crossfire, because the 460 was brilliant.

I hope to see here a review of the new Radeon in CF mode

best option......now that i hear the radeon 5970 is going to be 10% faster than the gtx 480

The efficiency of the gtx 460 architecture is much better, so you'll probably get better performance out of this dual setup (2 460's own 1 480 most of the time) for the power required.

Also, it opens up the option to go quad sli, which would be mental!

Depending on the price this product may become very interesting (in case it gets on the market). SLI out of the box. I am wondering whether this product would work on AMD chipsets (boards).

In theory yes. In practice no.
To keep the card within some vague attempt at a reasonable power draw, either the core/memory frequency is likely to be lowered or very little overclocking headroom will be available.

That depends on (your) budget, pricing in your region and what you expect out of the card regarding game IQ and resolution. The GTX 460 hasn't suddenly become a bad card, and nor has the HD 6870/6850 re-invented the wheel.

Crossfire (and SLI) scaling is in large part down to driver profiles. The latest Catalyst 10.10 drivers have improved Crossfire scaling significantly in a number of games

I'm sure it's not too far away.

It already is....and them some.

All any AMD and Intel board needs for this card (or any other PCI Express based card) is a functioning PCIe x16 slot.

Not majorly. The GTX 480 is probably nearing EOL very rapidly, if reports floating around regarding the new Fermi silicon revision are true ( 512 shader/ lowered double precision (compute) emphasis, 128 TMU, 750-800MHz core/ 4000-4600MHz effective memory).
I don't think nvidia will be overly sad to see the 480 retired.

I hope Zotac can give us more value than before with this card

I don't know about US, but here in Europe all the X2 cards have been double the price of the normal cards. For instance 4870X2 was double the price of 4870. So, if a GTX 460 is 200$, I would expect that this GTX 460 X2 to cost 400 $. As I see a GTX 480 is about 500$.

Oh, If I could get my hands on one of these bad boys. I already have a overclocked GTX 1 gig 460 and it gives more than satisfying results with just about anything, and then two of those in one card, I just can't imagine these in SLI.