"Add to that there’s no Tri-SLI and the higher power requirements and the lemon starts shaping up."
Not quite a lemon, because a 8800gts is faster than a gt and not just that but it just pushes certain recent games (at popular widescreen resolutions) across the line from not playable to playable, and that's pivotal.
It's one thing to not be impressed when you have a card do 130 instead of 100 FPS, it's another thing to have one do 22 FPS and the other 33 FPS.
Not to mention that you can't buy a 8800gt anywhere, let alone 2 to do SLI.

Help me out guys. What's the crack with the Paris Hilton photo at the end of the 3 way SLI review? She looks like she's got some kind of frontal flesh flap syndrome. I know she's got the smarts of a orang-utan, but surely not the belly sag of one?