On the contrair my friend, its not a total waste of money. Sure i mean, if you intend on running2 gig's of video ram while playing half life 2, it can be a waste of money (and in some cases
a performance decline), but one card is actually good enough.
I only know this because I sold the Asus version of this card to one of my clients and it ROCKED the benchmarks, infact I think it came in the TOP 999 benchmarks in the official AMD forums.
https://community.amd.com/community/support-forums
I work @ Summit Direct (canada) and if you have questions about the components I used, pm me, and I'll email you the exact specs (from the proposal sheet)
Here are a few pictures featuring the card we're talking about (that we custom built recently)
System Specs:
ThermalTake Tsunami Dream ATX W/(600W PurePower PSU)
ASUS M2N-SLi Deluxe
AMD sAM2 FX62 - 2811Mhz 2x1MB L2 Cache
OZC 2GB DDR2 800MHz Gold XTC 5-5-5-12 2T
(2X250GB) WD 7200RPM S-ATA2 (Raid"0")
1GB GeForce 7950GX2 GPU - 500Mhz GPUMEM - 400Mhz
3DMark06 Score - 9249 (No Tweaking) 07/29/2006
SM2 - 4199 / SM3 - 4276 / CPU - 2152
With Tax (Ontario 14%) Sold for $4586.13 CDN
LET ME REMIND YOU - NO TWEAKING - NO OVERCLOCKING - NO SIGN OF ARTIFACTS
PURE PWNAGE!!!!!!
So yeah, if you have some money to spend, or finance. The Geforce 7950 GX2 is a
great option to go with. lol.