[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Francois Dion]

On 1/24/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joshua Boyd wrote:
>   >> Of course, the 8800 is supposed to be six times as fast as the 7900.
> >
> > I never particularly have time to do anything that might take advantage
> > of these cards.  I bought the FX5200 for the shaders and have done
> > exceedingly little with them.  The 8800 does look tempting from the
> > feature capacity, but it is way too expensive.
>
> Believe it or not, there are a bunch of gaming fanboys who are dumping
> single 7950GX2's so they can upgrade to dual 8800GTX's.  Hence, I'm
> beginning to see used 7950GX2's for something approaching reasonable money.

oooh, nice! I've been running the 7600 and some quadro fx boards (550
and 560) and they rock under Solaris Nevada. The quadro fx are too
expensive for my home machine. Already a 7600 is pretty darn fast for
my own opengl code, the 7950 is like, what, 3x faster than the 7600?
I'll have to keep my eyes open.

Anybody else doing opengl under solaris? I was talking with Ken Mays
(he built the real slick screensavers on blastwave) and we seemed to
be pretty alone in that area.

Current uptime is only 21 days on my machine, but that is because I
updated to solaris b54. Before that, I had been on U3 beta since
october 1st, I think, so a little over 3 months of uptime w/ nvidia
drivers and dual LCD monitors setup with no issues whatsoever (on the
FX550 I had to add the pci id in the driver_aliases but the 7600
worked out of the box).

Francois