first 640MB VIDEO Card for $1700 with free shipping

[kamranziadar]

3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 PCI Express 640MB DDR3 Video Card w/Dual DVI Retail ***Free 2nd Day
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...jsp?ProductCode=324704

 

[Foladar]

backordered already.. Lol

 

[gotensan01]

What's with the odd non-power of two increment?

 

[toant103]

i'll take 2

 

[SelArom]

you'd think for that price they'd give you more than a 3 year warranty. for 1700 it should cover you and your children's children's children

 

[Souka]

If yer gonna buy this, I'll sell ya the Brooklyn bridge!

Sukas.....

 

[Bookmage]

That free 2nd day shipping makes this really nice too.
Wonder how this performs with Doom 3 or Halo 2
This will go great with my quad opteron and quad xeons.

But I don't have the money, so I'll have to sell my beachfront property in Arizona.
Anytakers?

 

[Anonemous]

where's the sli version?

 

[gotensan01]

I was told that 3Dlabs has been making beefed up (512mb) video cards but they are specifically designed for CAD applications. So maybe they're trying to enter the regular vid card industry?

 

[k1114]

I was certain that 1gb video editing cards had been around for a while now...

 

[yougotdeals]

hmmm...... think i'll have to save my money on this one

 

[Krutoy]

This card is for high end graphics designers. CAD, 3D Studio, etc and hence the price.

 

[Fritzo]

LOL- we're not using 128 fully yet

 

[Atif]

SLI? No.

But dual VPUs on one board? Yes.

"3Dlabs' 16x PCI Express-based graphics feature dual Visual Processing Units (VPU's). Twice the processing power. Twice the performance."

Peace

 

[rezinn]

benchmarks?

 

[busmaster11]

Originally posted by: gotensan01
What's with the odd non-power of two increment?

I'm sure its something like 128 + 512 or something of that nature...

 

[NuNuNYC]

darn gawn it... OOS already?!?! =T

 

[weepul]

Originally posted by: k1114
I was certain that 1gb video editing cards had been around for a while now...

ditto. these are for a completely different market. these video cards weren't optimized for opengl or directx, but optimized for CAD and other business usages. back in the voodoo2 ages, i've already seen 512MB video cards wihch costed $3k.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[Maus]

What do video editing cards need with texture memory

 

[NuNuNYC]

Originally posted by: weepul

Originally posted by: k1114
I was certain that 1gb video editing cards had been around for a while now...

ditto. these are for a completely different market. these video cards weren't optimized for opengl or directx, but optimized for CAD and other business usages. back in the voodoo2 ages, i've already seen 512MB video cards wihch costed $3k.

//krunk (^_^x)

but this is a 640MB DDR3 card!! 128MB of hot lovin action!

 

[kamranziadar]

i am not sure did some body noticed or not it is a PCI Express Card.

 

[Jaxidian]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
LOL- we're not using 128 fully yet

Those of us who are playing Doom need a 512MB video card to play using fully uncompressed textures. Speak for yourself...

 

[Spongey]

QUICK NOTE: This card is for workstation applications, such as 3d modelling and CAD.

They will run slowly in games.

Workstation video cards are made to sacrifice speed for visual quality.

I escence, they do not make good gaming card.

Most of the price come actually from the driver development, since the drivers have to get approved for dozens of things, and as such have to be of very high quality.