Bring one of these along to your next lan party:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadroplex.html
Basically a rackmountable 4 gpu box of graphics insanity. And no, it's not for regular consumers, it's for those scientific computing guys... but how cool would it be to have one anyway? :D
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aKMaNU5doOIs&refer=home
Edit: Looks like it's going to shareholder approval. If it ends up happening, what do you guys think it would do to the industry? And to NVIDIA? Wall street sure took ATI's side today, NVDA down 8%, ATYT up 8%...
Yeah yeah, I know, the INQ, but there was a tech report article a while back that also confirmed that pricepoint, even though people though it might have been euros.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31719
Looks killer, 1 GB of mem, two 500MHz cores on a single 140w card for $599. They...
I searched around for a while, so hopefully this isn't a repost.
http://www.penstarsys.com/editor/so3d/2006_04/index.html
Great article analyzing the history and economics of the GPU industry. Digs into details on die yields, per part costs, margins for each company, strengths and...
After reading this forum for a year or so, I have realized how entertaining it is.. so much so that I'll have to work late today to finish a project on time, after browsing some of the more interesting threads.
What's so entertaining about it is that every discussion boils down to 5...
Check it out:
http://www.beyond3d.com/interviews/carmack04/
Little more info on what exactly is going on here. It's as most thought, the POW function is a math approximation replacement for the specular lookup table that was in Doom3. The lookup table is in there to ensure identical...
Moving this into a seperate thread, since it was sort of OT:
I think we end the 'which card is better' debate unless it's discussed in real-world terms.
Not to point out the obvious here, but it's becoming pretty clear that the X800 XT PE is actually just a vaporware card sent out pretty...
Check this out:
http://firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=6891
Summary:
At this year's Quakecon (3 days away), Nvidia is going to launch their new chip, a 'mainstream' SM 3.0 card with SLI support for... get this... $199...
I am curious about this. Do the engineers that work on these things read over our threads and chuckle to themselves about our conjectures? Some people on here seem like they know quite a bit about chip design too, perhaps being ASIC engineers for some other company or something. Any ATI/Nvidia...
So... there goes that 'wait for HL2' argument.
Check it out, scroll down and you'll see that "Highly Anticipated DirectX 9 Game 1" is indeed Half Life 2:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/graphics-cards-2004_26.html
It's not as huge a beat down as Doom3 was, but it should...