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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

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.

Peace...  Sridhar