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    The new standard of excess

    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
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    AMD and ATI merger rumors starting to look true

    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%...
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    Nvidia 7950GX2 Priced out at $599

    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...
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    The State of 3D - Excellent Article

    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...
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    This forum is always good for a laugh

    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...
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    Katrina Relief - Jen-Hsun Huang (NVIDIA CEO) Autographed 7800GTX

    Did you bid yet? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5240217938 Hottness
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    Carmack responds in 'interview' with B3D

    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...
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    It has to be said

    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...
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    New Nvidia GeForce6600 - SM 3.0 SLI for $199!

    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...
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    Does anyone in here work for Nvidia/ATI?

    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...
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    Nvidia beats ATI in latest HL2 benchmarks!

    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...
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