Can anybody say, "No life?"

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08-08-2006, 01:45 AM
Hawkeye

Can anybody say, "No life?"

http://www.gwn.com/news/story.php/id/10042/

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?

http://media.gameworldnetwork.com/ne...2c74156559.jpg

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 [/quote]

I'd say give it a couple of days, before it's out of date.
08-08-2006, 01:48 AM
Yamaneko

This isn't for consumers. Engineers and graphic design studios will buy this on credit.
08-08-2006, 02:11 AM
nik0tine

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Originally Posted by Yamaneko

This isn't for consumers. Engineers and graphic design studios will buy this on credit.
08-08-2006, 02:37 AM
Tavrobel

My dear god. My e-penis is out of control!

Fortunately, by the time I'm done, it'll be uninteresting and out of date.
08-08-2006, 02:41 AM
Cloudstrife4003

HMMMMM...Nah...i think i'll buy a ps3 instead...They say u won't need a pc anymore after u buy a ps3...diss to bill gates...
08-08-2006, 02:43 AM
nik0tine

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HMMMMM...Nah...i think i'll buy a ps3 instead...They say u won't need a pc anymore after u buy a ps3...diss to bill gates...

Because a PC's only use is gaming.
08-08-2006, 02:45 AM
Shoeberto

And console graphics rival those of PC graphics during their entire lifespan.
08-08-2006, 02:58 AM
Sylvie

...And I can write all my school reports on a PS3 using the controller.
08-08-2006, 02:59 AM
Cloudstrife4003

LOL genji...I wish...Be so easier...friggin' teacher is gonna give us reports to do every week now!!
08-08-2006, 03:00 AM
Sylvie

...How would that be easier?
08-08-2006, 03:03 AM
Cloudstrife4003

My computer suxxurs and EVERYTHING! Viruses and stoopid things keep getting on it..And it totally sucks...
08-08-2006, 03:04 AM
Tavrobel

... and I can reply on EoFF using my PS3, pester Samuraid, play Starcraft, Warcraft III, type up all of my reports on the PS3 for my homework, do bills, do calculations, fix, repair, and modify to my heart's content, upgrade it to no end, and still consider myself someone with a life.

Not like that useless PC. The only thing that thing is good for is playing Final Fantasy.
Who even plays that crap game? I sure don't! All it is is full of half-naked girls. NOT pornographic at aLL.
08-08-2006, 03:29 AM
Fuego

what ....
08-08-2006, 03:31 AM
Madame Adequate

It'll be surpassed by something twice as powerful within two years, max. Most likely 18 months.
08-08-2006, 03:45 AM
Nominus Experse

My god... it's impressive...
...for now, at least...

Which in itself, this constant, incessant march of technological advances, is both a blessing and a curse.
08-08-2006, 03:46 AM
Dignified Pauper

I want
08-08-2006, 03:49 AM
rubah

twice as powerful maybe, but definitely not twice as affordable.

I have a prediction that within twenty years it might drop into the price range of a normal consumer, unless it decreases in size. then it might be longer xD

(listen to this. predictions. why do we bother? The future is always more extravagant than our divinations. Except in the case of flying cars. Why don't we have those yet :()
08-08-2006, 03:52 AM
Materia Hunter Yuffie

good for rich companies
08-08-2006, 04:22 AM
Madame Adequate

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Originally Posted by rubah

twice as powerful maybe, but definitely not twice as affordable.

I have a prediction that within twenty years it might drop into the price range of a normal consumer, unless it decreases in size. then it might be longer xD

(listen to this. predictions. why do we bother? The future is always more extravagant than our divinations. Except in the case of flying cars. Why don't we have those yet )

Price-performance is increasing steadily as well. But even if a double-power iteration costs the same as this, this one will cost a lot less. Given the exponentially increasing rate of computer power increase, it won't take NEARLY twenty years. Computers as powerful as the Human brain will be affordable household items by the end of the 20s.

And making predictions about the future is an inherently tricky process, but not one which is completely futile. Current trends can be extrapolated.

And we don't have flying cars because anti-grav isn't NEARLY as easy as it should be.
08-08-2006, 06:18 AM
androo

holy mary mother of christ. i want one....
08-08-2006, 06:35 AM
Tasura

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Can anybody say, "No life?"

Tasura, wait no, I got that wrong, ummm Tas.. no hmmm, anyway, yea its a bit over priced for my taste, and need but im sure some big companys will love it.