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  • Nvidia Reveal $18,000 PC Graphics Card

    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. How's your e-penis now?

    You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money. Or, according to Nvidia, you can have 12 mega pixel hi-def video, and a card (actually it's more like a series of cards) that will run every PC game due for release in the next century.

    "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."

    The cheapest model starts at $17,500, and it just goes up from there! When they're released in September, we'll probably give a few away. Or, maybe we'll buy a house instead!

    The only problem with owning one of these cards is you'd need about 20 of the latest CPUs in order to feed it data quick enough that the CPU wouldn't become a massive bottleneck. Of course, they're designed for integrated graphics computers and engineers, not really gaming!

    If anyone out there actually plans to purchase one of these suckas, we'd love to hear how many of your children you intend to sell in order to fund such a venture. Of course, we do not condone such things.
    Aug 3, 2006
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  • #2
    Sadly, the entire thing will be completely outdated by even the cheapest graphics cards of the year 2008. That's just how Moore's law works.
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    • #3
      that's 180 hamburgers for this puppy. right mehen, it's time for your diet
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      • #4
        $18k doesn't begin to cover it; adding a 12 megapixel panel array could easily double that
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        • #5
          Host Connection PCI Express x16, Small Form Factor, Passive (10W)

          2M (6.5 foot) NVIDIA Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable

          Is what I'm excited about. Imagining a system similar to a hi fi setup. Slim box for core duo pc with a cable connecting to the graphics system housed in a seperate enclosure (equivalent to a power amp). Which could mean quiet high performance gaming, as they wouldn't be constrained by BTX / ATX form factor ( better heatsink design)or having to mess around with is my PSU powerful enough etc.

          E.g. on your desk you have something the size of a mac mini. and tucked away you have the graphics.
          Last edited by Fluff; 9 August 2006, 08:11.
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          • #6
            This thing is going to generate enough heat to fry eggs on...
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Fluff
              Host Connection PCI Express x16, Small Form Factor, Passive (10W)

              2M (6.5 foot) NVIDIA Quadro Plex Interconnect Cable

              Is what I'm excited about. Imagining a system similar to a hi fi setup. Slim box for core duo pc with a cable connecting to the graphics system housed in a seperate enclosure (equivalent to a power amp). Which could mean quiet high performance gaming, as they wouldn't be constrained by BTX / ATX form factor ( better heatsink design)or having to mess around with is my PSU powerful enough etc.

              E.g. on your desk you have something the size of a mac mini. and tucked away you have the graphics.
              Perhaps, but not too far away or latency could become an issue for interactive purposes. For rendering a movie of course this would not matter.

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              • #8
                True ... you are right at 2m length the round trip of 4m adds a minimum of 12ns of latency.
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                • #9
                  lol @ lowlife

                  Food > Computer

                  I still don't think that card would run FEAR smooth.
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                  • #10
                    It better be able to make virtual vixens give BJ's at that price
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                    • #11
                      If thats true then Computer > Food
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Jesterzwild
                        It better be able to make virtual vixens give BJ's at that price
                        you'd pay that much for a BJ? *twitch!* and here i was poking the 100$ hamburger when a 18k$ BJ was floating around.
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                        • #13
                          /meow
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                          • #14
                            wow, for some reason I didn't calculate that in my head... that is pretty ridiculous, I think I will stick to $100 hamburgers and $10 hookers.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by lowlifecat
                              you'd pay that much for a BJ? *twitch!* and here i was poking the 100$ hamburger when a 18k$ BJ was floating around.
                              I am married, so by the time I pass, I think that's a fair estimate
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