What is this beast?!

[Galacanakis]

wow

 

[mwmorph]

WOW. [supressing need to piss away 2200bucks...]

 

[Malak]

A workstation card.

 

[Galacanakis]

fill me in, why is it so much more expensive than a regular graphics card, what does it have??

 

[BW86]

thats a huge card

 

[smc13]

Here:

http://www.3dlabs.com/products/product.asp?prod=293

 

[RobotOfHatred]

Why are these cards so bloody expensive?

How well will it handle Half-Life 2?

 

[MisterChief]

The reason it is SO expensive is because they are WORKSTATION CARDS. They are meant for DESIGNING, NOT PLAYING, games. They have some very complex hardware and software when compared with gaming cards.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: RobotOfHatred
Why are these cards so bloody expensive?

How well will it handle Half-Life 2?

i :heart: n00bs

 

[qulAKle]

Me too lol.

 

[mwmorph]

well they are low production cards, making thme inherently harder to make a profit form than mass market cards(assuming devlopment, overhead,etc remains constant no matter what ) it's all about economies of scale.

 

[RobotOfHatred]

Haha, it was a joke calm down.

I know these are workstation cards. My dad has a 4-7210 on his work computer.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: RobotOfHatred
Why are these cards so bloody expensive?

How well will it handle Half-Life 2?

1. They give any CAD Monkey they are bestowed upon the supa.

2. They're more geared towards OpenGL, and are engineered for workstation perfomance, not gaming. The drivers will be a huge limiting factor. If I had to guess I'd say that an X850XT would be faster in HL2.

 

[MisterChief]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: RobotOfHatred
Why are these cards so bloody expensive?

How well will it handle Half-Life 2?

i :heart: n00bs

Amen:beer:

 

[RobotOfHatred]

Originally posted by: RobotOfHatred
Haha, it was a joke calm down.

I know these are workstation cards. My dad has a 4-7210 on his work computer.

 

[fibes]

Wow, shipping is only $4.99.

 

[ShadowBlade]

it seems like the weight of that could break a mobo with leverage...if the gpu is mounted that far behind the interface and its got that giant cooler on it...seems to defy laws of physics to me

 

[roguerower]

How bout someone buy it, run 3dmark05 and tell us what you get

 

[qulAKle]

I got 3 3dmarks05. WTF.

 

[D34N]

OC That badboy, but b careful and only OC it 980MHz at a time KTHX Goodluck!*






*Sarcasm

 

[thegimp03]

Wow.... hahha

 

[Steffenm]

My Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB will perform better in games than this card I bet Pixar, though, uses cards like this.