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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Damn.  Have to keep my eyes open on eBay.  ;)
>>> People are installing dual X2's in SLI mode, which gives you four GPUs.
>>>
>>> Amazing.
>> The problem is that a single 8800GTX is faster than the dual-GPU 7950GX2.
> 
> The used 7800s and 7900s are still selling on eBay for more than I can
> justify as gamebox budget.

If it comes below $175 for a 7950GX2, then I can probably justify it.  I 
would pay it off over a couple of months and I wouldn't have any problem.

But not that much money for a lesser card (for example, a 7950GT).  And 
even if I spotted an 8800GTX for 50% off sale price, I still don't think 
I could justify that.  Especially since the processor is an Athlon 64 X2 
3800+.

Peace...  Sridhar