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    GPU able to play recent games until next century!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by miscolobo, Jul 22, 2008.

  1. miscolobo

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    miscolobo, Jul 22, 2008
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  2. sujinge9

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    Its a quadro, so its not really for gaming as the article said. And theres lots of amazing computers in that price range (server farms) that if optimized for gaming would probably render crysis at 300000000 fps on all high.
     
    sujinge9, Jul 22, 2008
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  3. plasma.

    plasma. herpyderpy

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    what about crysis 11?
     
    plasma., Jul 22, 2008
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  4. Mikelx215

    Mikelx215 Notebook Evangelist

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    I figured there had to be a better reason.

    What are the odds that ATI releases a slightly weaker GPU, next week, for $74?
     
    Mikelx215, Jul 22, 2008
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  5. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Pfft until next centry? Crysis 2 will have it on its knees :p

    Plus these Auto CAD cards are not really made for gaming. Plus like they said massive cpu bottleneck. I cant get past 19,400 points in 3dmark06 with my dual 4850's just because my 3.6ghz quad core is not fast enough :(
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 22, 2008
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  6. DaveA50

    DaveA50 Notebook Guru

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    That is from almost 2 years ago...
     
    DaveA50, Jul 22, 2008
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  7. Mikelx215

    Mikelx215 Notebook Evangelist

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    What! My Pixar-studios-in-a-box only good for ninety-eight more years?

    NO!
     
    Mikelx215, Jul 22, 2008
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  8. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    Lol yep 2006


    They have been making these for a while, there is a reason nobody uses them for gaming.
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Jul 22, 2008
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  9. eleron911

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    Yup,bogus news.
     
    eleron911, Jul 22, 2008
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  10. Vash the Stampede

    Vash the Stampede Notebook Consultant

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    i wonder what those 2 ports in the front are?
     
    Vash the Stampede, Jul 22, 2008
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  11. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    It's to connect to a PCI-express adapter.
     
    ScifiMike12, Jul 22, 2008
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  12. Harper2.0

    Harper2.0 Back from the dead?

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    Anyone wanna lend me $18k? and 20+ cpu's? :p
     
    Harper2.0, Jul 22, 2008
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    "until next century"? give me a break. try to run crysis on a supercomputer that built 30 years ago.
     
    Nirvana, Jul 22, 2008
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    imagine overclocking that thing......anyways games arent coded to use all that and maybe tech will take a turn in the future so i still think for gaming it will never be useful in the future..plus next century hopefully games still wont be PC and Monitor..what happens when the shader model or direct X version of this beast becomes dated and we are using shader model 10.0? and DX11... time to upgrade all 20 gpu's? lol
     
    HaloGod2007, Jul 22, 2008
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  15. min2209

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    Refer to The Matrix (1999) to find out what the games from the next century will be like.
     
    min2209, Jul 22, 2008
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  16. Prasad

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    It may have the horsepower required (which I doubt), but would it be DX-99 ready for the next century ? .... and if it's not (which it is not) then how WOULD it run the games in the first place ? ;)
     
    Prasad, Jul 22, 2008
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  17. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    exactly. it won't even be able to play new games for a decade, much less a century. once dx11 is a minimum requirement, thats it. won't run the game no matter how much horsepower it has.
     
    masterchef341, Jul 22, 2008
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  18. Arquis

    Arquis Kojima Worshiper

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    They said "any game due for release in the next century." Therefor it'll only run stuff we already know about and can already run on a laptop GPU :p
     
    Arquis, Jul 22, 2008
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    I doubt that pc could even run crysis at 60fps in 1920x1200 maxxed out.

    It's just a quadroplex board. It also isn't a single $18000 video card, it is a server pc type box that houses two quadro GPU's in SLI, or up to 4 GPU's in quad SLI for rendering, or GPGPU tasks.

    the entire thing actually has less gaming performance than just using two 8800GTX's in SLI. The reason why no one owns one for gaming is not because of the price tag, if that were the case then Voodoopc wouldn't exist, it's because the Quadroplex is not made for gaming, and can be outperformed by a 17x cheaper gaming desktop.
     
    unknown555525, Jul 22, 2008
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    An interesting tidbit is that DX11 is going to be totally backward compatible. DX10 and 10.1 software will be able to render DX11.

    source is a dutch website but they cite gamefest 2008 dev conf: http://tweakers.net/nieuws/54689/directx-11-officieel-aangekondigd.html
     
    Ever.monk, Jul 23, 2008
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  21. Zee_Ukrainian

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    Wouldn't be suprised if Falcon NW offered it as an option.
     
    Zee_Ukrainian, Jul 23, 2008
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  22. HTWingNut

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    You could buy a new high end GPU and CPU every 18 months for $1000 and $18000 would get you through 27 years. With inflation maybe 22.
     
    HTWingNut, Jul 23, 2008
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    So what is that thing actually made for if not gaming?.

    btw read the overexcited user comment:

     
    Nocturnal310, Jul 23, 2008
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  24. Prasad

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    It's a quadro... so it's a workstation class device for CAD :)
     
    Prasad, Jul 23, 2008
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