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

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 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.

The used 7800s and 7900s are still selling on eBay for more than I can
justify as gamebox budget.


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