this is actually a pretty good thing. think..., what was our issue with the 8800GTS 512? the memory bandwidth kills it. it barely performs better than a GT, even though it should kick the crap out of a GTX (21% advantage on the shaders, 17% advantage on the GPU). but the bandwidth is only 62.1GBps stock, versus 86. bringing that up to 70 should actually do a lot of good. and any over-clocked versions, which could bring that even higher, should be pretty nice. we could see a card that beats the current GTX by about 10%. considering that it is replacing the GTS (since the GX2 is presumably the new high-end option, despite the naming confusion), this is much less disappointing than it seems. any price under $450 (where the GX2 is expected to weigh in) is actually pretty excellent. the 8 series was an anomaly as far as how much it beat the 7 series. The 9 series is more promising than it seems on the surface.
