“Turns out the Rampage III Extreme motherboard unveiled by ASUS back in March won’t support four-way SLI configurations right out of the box.Perhaps in an effort to keep costs down, ASUS opted against equipping the board with NVIDIA NF200 bridge chips and a four-way SLI license. The decision makes sense, as very few users are ever going to utilise a four-way GPU configuration, and both the added expense and additional power draw (each NF200 chip eats up around 6W) are essentially drawbacks for 99 per cent of users.”
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Xpand your Rampage III Extreme to get four way SLI

The ASUS ROG Xpander is a daughter card specifically designed to allow 4 way SLI on the soon to arrive ASUS Rampage III Extreme. Install it on the first and third PCIe slots, plug in a six pin PCIe power plug and a few molex power connectors to power the pair of nForce 200 chips on the board and you should get four 16x PCIe lanes just waiting for a Fermi card or four. The fit will be tight in most cases but if you want the most extreme benchmark results you will probably find a way. We won’t see this in action until Computex gets going but you can see some pictures over at HEXUS.