You all have severe reading disabilities. Why are you arguing with me about something I NEVER SAID?
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GQgeek 
And TS, I can't believe you're bringing Tesla in to this. He's talking consumer graphics cards and your bring-up HPC? That's like someone asking for computer suggestions and me bringing up HP blade servers. Those aren't even really intended for graphics work btw. They're intended to leverage the scalability and massive processing power of GPUs for certain types of calculations that they do much more effeciently than general purpose CPUs. And I was aware of the upcoming external solutions for NOTEBOOK graphics, which have always been crippled by size and thermal constraints, but I don't see it happening in PCs for quite some time, if ever. He's building a PC. Current PSUs have plenty of wattage for hungry graphics cards.
I brought up TESLA because it is an standalone box, with multiple GPU's and a power supply in it that is hooked up to a PCI-E adapter card. I KNOW WHAT IT"S FOR, I posted the damn link. You seem to be missing my point. You seem to be missing it on
purpose so that you can argue with me. NVIDIA knows what the threshold is for cooling and power usage is inside a computer case. I'm saying that they are thinking of moving outside the computer case in the near future because given power usage models of popular PC setups, they know they have a pretty limited amount of time before they surpass it. Not to mention all the benefits that a standalone GPU box will give you. I pointed out an example of what the future of graphics cards might look like, using TESLA and Quadro as examples of CURRENT multi-core GPU's tethered together in a standalone unit.
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And nobody that wants a smaller pc is going to go that route and then add an external box for graphics. Chances are, if their priorities are smaller and quieter, they won't be looking at the super high-end of GPU line-ups, which will always be big and hot.
Oh yeah? So what about people who have a laptop as their home computer, Or people who like small form factor, small mid towers or HTPC form factor cases where the addition of a relatively small external case which could probably be easily hidden? I know I want a better graphics card for my HTPC.
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MCsommerreid Incorrect, not a graphics card. It's a compact real time render farm meant to be rack mounted in supercomputer and graphics rendering systems. It's not a consumer level item in any sense of the word. You'd have to have a Tyan motherboard, or something like an SGI or HP workstation.
Actually, you need Windows XP Home/Pro/64/ or linux or Solaris, A P4/Xeon or Opteron or higher, 2GB of RAM, and a PCI express slot. Thats it. No other fanciness required. And its fully capable of high level 3D gaming. It is optimized for 3D texturing, mapping, and shading, has up to 64x antialiasing, has advanced OpenGL/DX9 architecture, and incedentally is pretty damn quiet.
