Well, I do live a bit out in the sticks, that's for certain. The PCI-ES sounds pretty wild, never heard of it before (not having had anything to do with arrays at my tiny 20 person company).

I suppose the on-board video on desktop machines will keep the PCI vid card market alive and well for the forseeable future. Your're right though, PCI cards available seem to lack depth of choice at the high end of the performace spectrum.

-Zeke