I can hardly wait to get my hands on the HD 4870X2 video card from ATI. I’m not really an ATI fanboy, since I currently own an NVIDIA 8800 GTS card. It even crossed my mind to get a second card and try the SLI mode. That was because of Crysis, but now I’m set on buying an ATI card. However, if you are an NVIDIA fanboy and you can’t really afford to buy a Dual GTX 280 solution, here’s a pretty good alternative coming from ECS.

Elitegroup Computer Systems claims that this is a high end graphics gamer pack that should meet the needs of the most demanding hardcore gamers out there. It is known as GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack and combines two NVIDIA N9800GTX+-512MX-W graphics cards with a special ECS Hydra Cooling System in order to provide outstanding overclocking capabilities.

The two cards support Nvidia PhysX as well as Nvidia CUDA technology and the included cooling system is said to deliver around 20 percent better cooling efficiency compared to similar liquid cooling systems. Other features of this pack include support for the second-generation PureVideo HD Technology, which provides high-definition video decoding acceleration and post-processing and 512MB of GDDR3 memory on the graphics cards. Overclocking these babies is pretty much hassle-free and the water block system will efficiently cool the cards even when you push them to the limit.

Strange enough, the gaming pack seems to be already available, but there is no official info on the price.