Its almost impossible to introduce a new technology that is completely trouble-free in the tech world. In fact, its not shocking to hear about a product reaching its EOL before its properly matured. Hopefully, SLI will not be such a technology and while we've certainly had our fair share of headaches with it, it's the thought of it that keeps us going.

One of the problems we initially faced with SLI was the usage of a 400W PSU to power the entire setup- this was just not cutting it and the lack of availability of a better PSU in the local market had our hands tied. Luckily, we managed to aquire a Enermax 600W PSU and that, along with nVidia releasing the new WHQL passed 71.84 drivers a couple of weeks back, made us decide to re-visit the technology.

We requested ASUS to send us a couple of their 6800GT PCI-Express cards which landed in our test labs a few days later. The packaging of the ?Extreme N6800GT?was up to the usual ASUS standard. It came in huge boxes with some decent add-ons supporting ASUS technologies like Game Face Live and ASUS On Screen Display (OSD). The applications bundle included Power Director, ASUS DVD Medi@show SE and a full version of Joint Operations Typhoon Rising.

A small video camera that can be powered through the USB port is also included and ASUS bundles their Video Security application to make use of it. Also included are two DVD to DSUB converters and an S-Video cable along with the 6 pin to molex power converter cable.

The card itself is a single slot solution which is a good thing however, we felt that running two of them together might need a bit of a better cooling solution. The HSF solution covers the entire front of the card and the fan has a blue LEDs which certainly makes it look cool. In general the fans a nice and quite but they can become loud if things heat up.