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- TheBobman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+114The Quadro line of graphics cards are geared towards professional designers, engineers, etc. They are NOT designed for use in gaming. You'll notice that the official page (http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadroplex.html) doesn't mention the word "game" even once.
- Paktu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+93No, but if you have an additional $982,000, you may have an opportunity to do two chicks at the same time. Chicks dig dudes with money.
- teddyrux, on 10/12/2007, -4/+91My e-penis is fine, thank you.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+73"It is like comparing apples to bannans. They are tottally different and ment for totally different things."
Apples and bananas are meant to be eaten. - NICU, on 10/12/2007, -7/+71From the caption "You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money." What sports car can you buy for $18,000? Oh wait don't tell me, a bottom of the line Honda Civic for $14,000 and a 3 foot tall rear spoiler, brighter head lights, and a fake exhaust for the other $4000?
- Destinatus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61yes, this card is obviously designed for developing, not gaming. Anyone who gets this for gaming needs a financial advisor ...I have a pretty resonable rate =P
- magister, on 10/12/2007, -5/+59Well not all chicks...
Although, they type of chicks that would double up on a dude like me do. - threepio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45I've always wondered - would women have e-breasts or an e-gina?
- animalgod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Since it's a size thing, I think e-rack.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34boob-e I think.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+39yes, and everyone on digg should know this because its about the third time it's hit frontpage
- agent888, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30>>> Also, last i checked isn't gaming prety much the only reason you would need such a good video card?
Um, nah....movies like Shrek, Cars, and all those other nifty 3d movies are all produced with TnT 32 meg video Cards - nOOBert, on 10/12/2007, -10/+32The Quadro line will run games. They will NOT preform as good as you think. The coding on the cards is NOT ment for games. They are ment for apps like CAD.
In fact if you look around on the net or newegg and find people who actually spent money on these for gaming... they are now crying because they will not preform like a $500 card.
It is like comparing apples to bannans. They are tottally different and ment for totally different things. - briansorders, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21this thing is going to be a worthless brick in a a few years or less ...
- meznak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21*stab* *stab* *stab*
nobody cares. - meznak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18@Bob
Sure... but you know part of you still wants to try. - steveoa3d, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15You could take an old 80's Mustang LX 5.0 and make it a 10 second car for under 10K. For 18K you can get an used race car like a Rally Car. I have seen completely prepped Group N Rally Cars for around 18K and they are street legal.
- kremus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Quadro simple means the type of card it is. It is to design modeling programs like the GeForce line is to Games
Quadro - 3D design such as ProE, Solidworks, and other progs for modeling.
GeForce - 3D DirectX games
As for the specs, I have yet to read the article, so the card may be 4 cores, but the "Quadro" is not implying that at all. - JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Not _for_ gaming? And? That doesn't mean that if one of us got our hands on it we wouldn't try it. >_
- threepio, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"Overweight Boulevard Cruiser", eh? That's not what your mother said, Trebek!
- animalgod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hell, then you could hit 88 mph and buy one on future eBay for dirt cheap.
- afeitarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That would be funny if in 2020 ebay was actually called "Future Ebay". :-p
- JAppi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8There are no women on the internet.
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I would rather buy a Delorean with that money than pay that much for a graphics card!
- Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Quadro is best for OpenGL. Almost all of the latest FPS video games use directx.
- ArcticCelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"After my (NVIDIA) card had been out for 3 years they stopped carrying any drivers for it."
Hu ho they deleted it with your internets, or maybe a hacker stole your megahurts!!!
Not really NVIDIA continue suporting ALL their 3D chipset since the original TNT in 1997. In fact NVIDIA was the first card company who started doing that unified driver thingy and I have lots of respect for that.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_91.31.html - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"And how many gamers will have the recommended 4gb of RAM?"
If you're shelling out $18000 for a video card I don't think 4 GB of ram is going to be an issue. - dschep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hardware wise: just fine. Software/usage wise: badly, seeing as its a Quadro which is geared towards workstation graphics (cad, 3d modeling etc). Now if there was a crazy go nuts GeForce like that... that would be a different story.
- W00DR0W, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9If it's not DX10 compatible no gamer would want one any ways.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Why is this even here? The Quadro Line is designed explicitly for Workstations. This is not an Opteron situation where you drop it in and it works. You try gaming on a Quadro and see how HL2 looks at 4 FPS.
- LordRahl72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What card would that be? Since there drivers cover every card from TNT to the newest Geforce cards I don’t see how your card is not supported.
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
ForceWare Release 90
Version: 91.31
Release Date: June 23, 2006
WHQL Certified - meznak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5who said it was for gaming? buried for burying for inaccurate.
- alienz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I can't wait to be reading a PC magazine in 20 years time that talks about how things were 20 years ago. I'll see this card and scoff at how my $20 wrist watch makes better holographic projections.
- rondeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just curious, here...which card? The NV1? Last time I was out there it seemed there were drivers all the way back to the TNT line at least.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The Quadro line has always been for professional use, not for gaming, the card's performance would probably not exceed their ultra-line model card in games, because that is not what it's tuned for.
- KaptainKandy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I would rather use that money to have people stop commenting about how 18K won't buy you a decent car.
- killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@sneak and wifl
thanks for runing the moment... like one of those guys when everyone is telling jokes and laughing and u go "oh i get it" - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"...that will run every PC game due for release in the next century."
I highly doubt that. XD - wistar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In 1997 I bought an Intergraph NT workstation with their Wildcat card. The card at the time cost $13K and the box, complete, was $27K. It didn't run Quake very well, I remember. Of course, this was a fraction of the cost of the ¿#&% SGI Indigo2 boxes I had purchased only a year earlier ($60K including the 384MB RAM).
This must be one hell of a graphics engine. - Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Oh, and the specs for these cards claim a fillrate of 80 gigapixels. A quad SLI rig offers 48 gigapixels. And a quad SLI rig costs a small fraction of the price.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41. You are an idiot, this card IS NOT MEANT FOR FREAKING GAMING no matter which computer it is run on.
2. Your english is that of a Myspacer.
3. What? - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Your's was a dupe too!
http://digg.com/hardware/Nvidia_Debuts_Standalone_Rendering_Box - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3[quote]stab* *stab* *stab*
nobody cares.[/quote]
I care. :P - inkyblue2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the market for this is the same market that used to keep SGI afloat: scientific visualization, high-end modeling, CAD, etc. you don't buy one of these for your apartment, you buy one for your CAVE.
$18000 is pretty entry level compared to the prices that SGI machines used to command. too bad nvidia didn't hire any of their industrial designers, though; this thing looks more like a WMD than a workstation. - GoodBrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I remember that workstation.
I also remember the backend of the Evans & Sutherland flight sim I saw in ~'83 or so. Each screen had its own graphics pipe, and each pipe was something like $1M and occupied an 8' tall 19" rack. - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Nvidia's drivers available on their website pretty much cover every standalone product they've released over the last 10 years. If you couldn't find the right driver you're either confused and it is available on the Nvidia site or you've got an integrated Nvidia solution (like what might be found in a laptop) and you're blaming the wrong party. Integrated solutions hardware and drivers are unique to the manufacturer so you can't those drivers from Nvidia--only the actual manufacturer.
You're being modded down because your story is highly improbable. Either provide more details or drop it. - dustinhoffman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2umm... Quadro has been Nvidias workstation cards for quite a few years... it's just the brand name just like GeForce (and no that doesn't mean that your pc will be pulling an G's).
shoot.. was talking to one of my co-workers and didn't submit... thanks kremus... - jedi_master, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Spell check much?
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+220 years from now "Dude, my printer is faster than AMD and Intel chips 20 years ago!"
- cesclaveria, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2guys come on!!! he is talking bs, and spamming a site... Nvidia has great driver support, for windows and linux (i dont know about mac os x)
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