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To: dougSF30 who wrote (239503)	8/29/2007 8:45:14 AM
From: morpheus4567	Respond to of 275872

Doug, If all I need to do is drop in another video card and see some serious gains on my machine without having to play with a CPU or memory and running everything with stock voltages... I'd buy the CPU, and stuff, build the machine and 1 card. In a couple of months, buy a second card, reboot (no new drivers needed)... Rinse, repeat.... It's a compelling upgrade path vs having to buy a new board, new cpu and potentially new ram (how long did DDR2 sit in the market anyway??) to get a nice boost in performance. If this is how they are going to position their CPU's and graphics cards, it's a great idea. Make the CPU's for servers (durable, reliable and great at crunching numbers) and let the graphics cards do everything for the enthusiast crowd. Great strategy... Personally, I don't think that many people at home are going to buy a dual socket solution anyway....not when you can buy a single socket board and drop in a new video card for big gains...without having to flash a bios (always scares the crap out of me) or needing to buy 2X the ram...etc etc...