The people at asus have gone completely mad and created this freaking monster    
 

rest of the story and pics can be found at
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7543.html
 
the card seems to be quite thick with those daughter cards at the back, tri-slot perhaps  

Sweet!!

I so want one.  

Cool concept, but really I think it is WAY to exotic for me.  I can almost bet that thing will have a SUPER premium price tag and other options are more cost effective.

Im thinking 9800GX2 price with much less performance

I'm thinking correct. (3) 3850's would be less.

I'm thinking it is just an engineering study, maybe some sort of proof of concept for the coming HD4000 series multicore cards (for some subsystems, drivers or something). I would be amazed if they would actually start selling those things...
 

I think the concept of having a MAIN Graphics board and smaller daughter boards with GPU&Mem on them is a neat idea if you can market it and make it cost effective for the consumer.

Just think. a 3870 main graphics board but 3 slots for additional mini cards.  OR a 8800GTS with the same. $200 for the main card and $150 for each little mini card.

I should patent that idea and then sue everyone who infringes on my intellectual copyright like Gibson is doing with Guitar Hero & Rock Band.

no way....

it just might stand a chance against the 9800gx2, although since there is no price it's hard to tell, it would be cool, just to see ati take back the top-end performance crown, by a freak of nature such as this, even if its done by ASUS...  

Remember the 1900prox2?

didn't that beat the 7950gx2 of its time?

I can't help but feel that it's gonna be a failure if it ever comes out. Probably will be overpriced as well.

Well since the 3850 and 3870 are the same chip i'm thinking asus has realeased this a Teaser to a TRI-3870 model which will definately beat out the 9800GX2 and reclaim the crown.