I guess the point is... Is that nvidia made a huge deal about SLI and 2 video cards (SLI systems being top of the line and the money makers) but they invent a huge ass card and then alienate their die hard customers by not creating an SLI version. The people who would go and spend 1400$ on 2 video cards are the same people that tell lower end users what they should and should not buy.
If they start making dual gpu cards then programmers wont code for SLI because they would assume people would go buy a dual gpu card.. So, why did i go and spend 700$ on 2 video cards and an extra 25-50$ for an sli motherboard?
Not all programs will support SMP.. but they will support dual cores, its exactly the same thing. This was a bigger issue back in the dual pentium pro days (when SMP was first getting started). But they kept making dual proc machines so coders were forced into coding for SMP. If nvidia quits with SLI now then i won't ever get to use my second card to its full potential...
I remember getting pretty irritated when quake 1 wouldnt use both processors on my dual ppro 180