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obob:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadroplex.html

September 2006, external PCI Express graphics release, in the form of nV Quadro Plex, and don't expect that price tag to be nice to you, lol, those cards cost something like $2500 each.

I'm guessing this is purely an answer to the issue of gfx card heat and power, and I remember myself speculating on the construction of such an external device, however the sheer SIZE of this thing blows my mind.

My real question is, does this indicate any advance on nVidia's part of entering the commerical IG world with it's Quadro series?

EDIT
after viewing their little flash movie, I think it's safe to say the IG is here now...but wow...I'd like to see the system that can take a number of those in rack config (afaik each one req 16 to 32 lanes of PCIe, and the PCIe standard from Intel only allows 32 lanes afaik (the hell i'm buying a PCI-SIG registration to view the technical white papers, I don't feel like looking around at Intel's site, so Wikipedia is good enough for me))

Lead Head:

--- Quote from: obob ---http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadroplex.html

September 2006, external PCI Express graphics release, in the form of nV Quadro Plex, and don't expect that price tag to be nice to you, lol, those cards cost something like $2500 each.

I'm guessing this is purely an answer to the issue of gfx card heat and power, and I remember myself speculating on the construction of such an external device, however the sheer SIZE of this thing blows my mind.

My real question is, does this indicate any advance on nVidia's part of entering the commerical IG world with it's Quadro series?

EDIT
after viewing their little flash movie, I think it's safe to say the IG is here now...but wow...I'd like to see the system that can take a number of those in rack config (afaik each one req 16 to 32 lanes of PCIe, and the PCIe standard from Intel only allows 32 lanes afaik (the hell i'm buying a PCI-SIG registration to view the technical white papers, I don't feel like looking around at Intel's site, so Wikipedia is good enough for me))
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There are some motherboards with dual 16x PCI-E ports, fully wired for 16 lanes each, allong with a few 1x or 4x slots. Usually around 48 lanes...meh

pofnlice:
So...yeah...

You think it can play diablo without freezing/stuttering at Baals legions?

:D

obob:
haha, probably not, given that it's not wired for Direct3D, but then again you never know

also, in order to accomplish >32 lanes you'd need multiple controllers, which should be possible, however I see that as an increasing complexity to the board (more layers for the extra controllers etc) which increases cost

and I highly doubt consumer boards exist with a true "48 lane" configuration

Lead Head:

--- Quote from: obob ---haha, probably not, given that it's not wired for Direct3D, but then again you never know

also, in order to accomplish >32 lanes you'd need multiple controllers, which should be possible, however I see that as an increasing complexity to the board (more layers for the extra controllers etc) which increases cost

and I highly doubt consumer boards exist with a true "48 lane" configuration
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the ATI xpress3200 chipset boards has dual x16 port, along with a few adtional PCI-E connectors for gigabit, and the southbridge

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