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Offline dm-horus

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« on: January 06, 2006, 02:58:51 AM »
This is absolutely insane... mostly in that a legitimate company actually made something most ppl dream about.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195

Its not that I doubt you (or I) could find a need for that much graphics processing power, but what convinced them to make it? It sounds like either they actually LISTENED to customers or Dell is actually interested in what he does and hasnt burnt out yet :P (still has some curiosity left in him).

All I can say is: I WANT THEM!!!
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Offline Leviathan

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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2006, 05:45:45 AM »
Does look MAD! :D

GFX cards have come a long way in a short time!

Nvidia versus ATI goes on.
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2006, 10:03:55 AM »
and yet a lot of games aren't coded for use with NVIDIA GFX cards
*mutter*stupid CYAN*mutter*
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2006, 11:52:25 AM »
HOLY CRAP! Why would anybody want so much power for gaming it doesn't make any sense? I bet it isn't even worth it cuz... Only dells will have it. The CPU is weaker then this thing and since Dell only uses Intel CPU's it's going to be extremely limited. Putting 5.6Teraflops of power in a normal computer that can hardly do 10Gigaflops is just plain dumb. That thing won't perform much better then a normal SLI config. With 5.6 teraflops you can do enormous amounts of mathematical calculations. It would need to have some kind of cache to hold information until the processor can have a try at anything. At best they should just scrap the CPU in general and make the 4 GF7 GTX's work as the CPU or Use a 14 SPE Cell processor.
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2006, 12:03:35 PM »
The future games will need more power. Like with AGP. There was AGP x8 but when it came out no games could actualy use it.
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2006, 12:07:27 PM »
Wicked I tell you, wicked. Probably gonna be uber expensive though. Up side is it wont be OOD for a while lol. GO NVIDIA!!
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2006, 12:18:32 PM »
Ok the best PC setup I think of that would make this thing worth something would be 2 Dualcore AMD Opteron CPUs (total of 4 CPUs), 4GB of DDR2 1000Mhz, and a 3 HD SATAII 10RPM (with NCQ) Raid setup. What I'm thinking is that DDR2 would be able to send data to the cards fast and the Raid setup would be able to load the textures to ram much faster then the Setup I'm thinking Dell would use. The Opteron CPUs have like 4 hypertransport links and would have the amount of processing power to do some nice stuff ;). Liquid or Phase change cooling would be best recommanded and Big old case. Only then will I even think about this thing.
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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2006, 12:19:01 PM »
I like reading news about these big tech shows, companys allways have stuff to show off :)
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2006, 03:10:18 PM »
This is insane!
Amazing, but totally useless. Its not at all needed for Outpost2 nor will it be needed for Outpost3.
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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2006, 05:00:24 PM »
All new inventions are totally usless for use by teh general public at first.  but the research that went inot that thing, and the unexpected success/failures will shape the next generation of video cards.

Like dual core processing, im sure the unexpected results of scientists building that thing will go to build an even better project.

If you think of a big circle effect, each new technology no matter how usless it is will go to creating the next one
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« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2006, 05:02:28 PM »
it may not be needed for op3, but what about op4 or 5?
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« Reply #11 on: January 07, 2006, 04:34:33 AM »
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it may not be needed for op3, but what about op4 or 5?
right, I forgot. In fact these cards won't even be good enough for Outpost 10
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« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2006, 11:00:07 PM »
I dont really know what game that exists now that a system like that would be good for, which is a shame. I hope Dell isnt thinking that a series of GPUs on crack will make up for having CPU/memory/HD bottlenecks. I dont recall seeing anything referencing the rest of the hardware in the article, but I doubt it could keep up with the throughput the video system could support. It would be REALLY nice if you could run 4 independant desktops on 4 monitors...
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« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2006, 11:30:15 PM »
By the time you get the money to buy two of those for SLI, they'll be way outdated.

In several years, we'll have 8 core CPU's, 16 core GPU's, quad-core physics processing units, quad-core sound cards, 500 TB hard drives, 16 memory slots, PCI-e x32, fusion powered PSU's, cooling devices that work by teleporting heat to some random place in the world, levitating cases, wireless everything, 5 inch by 5 inch motherboards, tiny CD/DVD drives with tiny CD's and DVD's, controlling computers with your brain, 20 Tbits ethernet, and a whole lot of other crap that nobody will be able to afford.
Wait... paying?! Screw that, I just wanna STEAL.
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« Reply #14 on: January 08, 2006, 03:01:07 AM »
since we all actually live in the matrix, all youd need is:

ctrl + alt + ~ + giveall
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