gwn.com — How's your e-penis now? 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. How many of your children will you sell to buy one?
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dschepAug 4, 2006
Hardware 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.
wistarAug 4, 2006
In 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.
imatt711Aug 5, 2006
where does it plug in?
toph18Aug 5, 2006
Wow! I can't afford that!
titlesaysitallAug 5, 2006
20 years from now "Dude, my printer is faster than AMD and Intel chips 20 years ago!"
mayurpatilAug 5, 2006
It looks more like an Nvidia Cpu dan a gfx card
jappiAug 5, 2006
There are no women on the internet.
brknAug 5, 2006
ohnnyj: Not Full Screen AntiAliasing like most games support, but antialiased lines (GL_LINE_SMOOTH). As in a single wireframe line from point A to point B. Consumer graphics cards, especially ATIs, are notorious for having very poor or no support for these such areas of OpenGL. The only game that I could think of immediately that would really benefit would be battlezone ;)
vav00mAug 5, 2006
yeah i dont think you're going to play much FEAR on this bad boy, but i'd love to be proven wrong.