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

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Wed, 24 Jan 2007 @ 22:38 -0500, Phil Stracchino said:
> 
>> Sridhar Ayengar 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.

Peace...  Sridhar