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G'bye College, Hello Nvidia! |
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With this bad-boy graphics card you could probably enter a virtual
college that looks better than the real thing, so the price isn't all
bad... Though this was reported around August of 2006, I'd say it's
enough "wow" to earn another announcement.
The Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000 looks more appealing than a mint to garlic-breath.
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"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."
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Basically speaking, it's got more grunt than an army of orcs, and the
price is no exception. So what do you think the price is? $900 in New
Zealand? $1,000? $1,500? Suffice to say that all those prices would
class this Nvidia as a 'freebie'... The price of this thing ranges from
a whopping $17,500 upwards. And thats in USD... Seventeen and a half
thousand United States dollars. That's almost $25,000 here in New
Zealand, which's the price of a rather costly three year polytechnic /
university course.
These things are designed more for intergrated
graphics computers and engineering, ergo they're not entirely focussed
around gaming. Still, if I had one of these and went to heaven I'd ask
for another chance if it prevented parting with my 25 grand of virtual
bliss.
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