Workstation cards

murph1379

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Jul 28, 2004
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ok guys, maybe I'm missing something, but what could a $1300 video card do for us? 3D rendering, premiere/afx/vegas?

https://www.monarchcomputer.com/Mer...PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=190758

What does this thing actually accelerate? What programs/functions would it actually speed up? A friend bought one, I'm at a loss as to why, and I'm not sure he knows himself... ?

I think some of the newer gaming cards have hardware mpeg2 encoding, but I can't tell if this thing even has that! I recall that a pair of opterons can render DV in realtime, but can't a raptor DV card do the same thing?

Matt
 

JBT

Lifer
Nov 28, 2001
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advanced OGL support. Even so alot of desktop cards can be modded into these with a simple BIOS flash.