What are these cards good for?

Noxide · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject: What are these cards good for?

I was looking around, killing time and I saw this.
http://www.3dlabs.com/products/product.asp?prod=291
What are they good for, and can you run games on them?
_________________
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, AM2 4600 x2, 150GB Raptor Exteme, 7900GTX in SLI Corsair XMS DDR2 CAS3, Custom DD Water Cooling

Google · Sponsor

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

interesting...dual 400Mhz DACs......

i dunno....*starts shuffling around*
_________________

[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

render stations. And no they arent good for gaming. for one look at the price and their performance in games is about on par with a sub $100 card.
_________________
I tweaked and it tweaked back! So I Tweaked some more!

"Barney is like the Michael Jackson of PBS." - James Tybeerious

fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

^^^^ Right.

Most game programmers will use them, but only to render one piece at a time, not to actually run a game. The detail those cards put out on a static image is astounding. For example, id used those cards to render all the graphics, frame by frame, but it'll NEVER run Doom 3.

Video editors/movie studios love them, too, just for that reason.
_________________
Big enough to scare you

Noxide · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

So people who.....say work for Pixar would use this kind of card...right? I just freaked out on the specs. 512 MB mem.. And the PCI-E says 640!!! Shock

I was like, "that cant be...they would be all over the forums" But now I know why. Just imagine what they "could" do if they were moddable to run games.

Do ya feel me?

_________________
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, AM2 4600 x2, 150GB Raptor Exteme, 7900GTX in SLI Corsair XMS DDR2 CAS3, Custom DD Water Cooling

sickofsoyo · Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject:

I looked at those a while ago, 3D labs is a division of Creative. I was like OH SKEET whenI saw the specs.
_________________
P4 3.2ghz
lanparty pro875b
Enermax Liberty 500 Watt Modular PSU
Sony 52X CD-RW
Samsung 120gig SATA hdd
Maxtor 100gig SATA hdd
Powmax Demon case
ATI X800 XL AIW, 525 Core, 525 mem
Creative X-Fi Platinum
PDP systems Patriot Ram 2,3,2,5 timings