The thread you mention still won't say what the fastest 8GB MS Pro Duo is though. Instead people agree 2 4GB cards are the better option.

As stated in that thrwad too, personally I prefer one 8GB MS Pro Duo so I won't have to take it out. From what I've seen so far, the SanDisk 8GB Extreme III's are the fastest 8GB's atm, but they're very expensive ($125/€100).

SanDisk 4GB Ultra II's are more affordable, but I'm unsure if the lower speeds compared to fast 4GB ones is gonna make a real difference in gameplay.

 

I'm still not sure why people are hung up on what the "fastest" card is

shouldn't you just be worried about which cards are fast enough to run games?

I'm playing God of War on my dealextreme 8gb fake with no issues at this moment

[blackSPEED v2 log]
Vendor : Fake Sony 8gb
Product name : _insert name_
Product ID : _insert id_
Total Space: 7728.063 MiB (8103460864 Bytes)
Free Space: 3873.063 MiB (4061200384 Bytes)
Cluster Size : 32.0 KiB (32768 Bytes)

read : 10.2448 MiB/sec (Blocksize 1024.0k)
write : 3.0308 MiB/sec (Blocksize 1024.0k)
read : 9.4911 MiB/sec (Blocksize 32.0k)
write : 2.9787 MiB/sec (Blocksize 32.0k)
read : 4.2278 MiB/sec (Blocksize 2.0k)
write : 0.3752 MiB/sec (Blocksize 2.0k)
read : 1.5277 MiB/sec (Blocksize 0.5k)
write : 0.0945 MiB/sec (Blocksize 0.5k)
PI: 207


supposedly a slow card, yet plays God of War just fine