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 Aug 24 2006, 06:57 PM
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I Love Bugs  Group: Publishing Betazoids
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QUOTE As if PC gaming wasn't expensive enough, Nvidia have unveiled a graphics card that will be known to shooter fans simply as 'God'. The $18K Quadro Plex 1000.  You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money. Or, according to Nvidia, you can have 12 mega pixel hi-def video, and a card (actually it's more like a series of cards) that will run every PC game due for release in the next century. "According to Nvidia, a node can achieve up to 64x full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), deliver a performance of up to 148 megapixels on 16 synchronized digital-output channels and eight HD SDI channels. The firm says that the fill rate reaches 80 billion pixels/s while the geometry performance is rated at seven billion vertices/s." The cheapest model starts at $17,500, and it just goes up from there! When they're released in September, we'll probably give a few away. Or, maybe we'll buy a house instead! The only problem with owning one of these cards is you'd need about 20 of the latest CPUs in order to feed it data quick enough that the CPU wouldn't become a massive bottleneck. Of course, they're designed for integrated graphics computers and engineers, not really gaming! If anyone out there actually plans to purchase one of these suckas, we'd love to hear how many of your children you intend to sell in order to fund such a venture. Of course, we do not condone such things. All I have to say is....I WANT ONE lol! |
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Aug 24 2006, 07:02 PM
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This is lame. Its not for gaming. Its not even for regular computers. Its for massive machines that are used for engineering or extreme computer graphics, and I mean extreme.
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Aug 24 2006, 07:08 PM
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I Love Bugs Group: Publishing Betazoids
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but its so cool XD
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Aug 24 2006, 07:11 PM
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Senior Programmer  Group: Admin
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definitly a waste of money
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Aug 24 2006, 07:13 PM
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P2L Staff  Group: P2L Staff
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Ill get one 2moro
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Aug 24 2006, 07:29 PM
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QUOTE Will run every PC game due for release in the next century According to Moore's Law that kind of power will be bog-standard in a decade or so. It's pretty insane to think what games will actually be like a century from now though. |
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Aug 24 2006, 08:12 PM
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P2L Paramedic Group: Publishing Betazoids
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Definitly the worst thing ever... like if regular players would waste that much of money instead of buying themselve a new computer with something like a ATi X1900 that would do the same...
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Aug 24 2006, 08:18 PM
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Young Padawan Group: Publishing Betazoids
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time to charge this to bill gates bank account...who wants one XD...
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Aug 24 2006, 08:22 PM
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I Love Bugs Group: Publishing Betazoids
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Its most likely for companies, and doing animation and effects in movies, think of the graphics in movies...wont be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy o.o!
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Aug 25 2006, 12:53 AM
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I wish I had a giant wall mounted rack with a ton of displays and a TON of money to blow... not!! Still VERY cool though! Pixar might enjoy this one
-austen 
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Aug 25 2006, 01:18 AM
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I Love Bugs Group: Publishing Betazoids
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Forget Pixar, they just gonna make more animal disney movies.
SQUARE ENIX AND MORE FINAL FANTASY MOVIES FTW! |
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Aug 25 2006, 05:19 AM
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QUOTE(l3lueMage @ Aug 25 2006, 06:18 AM)  Forget Pixar, they just gonna make more animal disney movies. SQUARE ENIX AND MORE FINAL FANTASY MOVIES FTW! AMEN TO THAT BUDY!! |
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Aug 25 2006, 06:24 AM
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i really dont understand the point of it, no ordinary person could ever use it.
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Aug 25 2006, 08:42 AM
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Pimpmaster G Group: Admin
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Matrox has been making these super expensive video systems for awhile now... they got out of regular consumer stuff once their Millenium cards were done (Matrox was THE video card to have before NVidia and ATI were around).
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Aug 25 2006, 01:01 PM
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Id rather take money and party it up....
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