Take a look at this graphics card and add your thoughts here

[Grall]

Lookie: http://www.forumdeluxx.de/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=783&size=big&password=&sort=1&thecat=514

I'm surprised I haven't seen any comments on this anywhere yet...


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[Jallen]

That card is like a year old...

 

[Mulciber]

I believe that card has been around for a while. It's only intended for quad-monitor support. I believe it's 2 quadro MXs each with dual integrated ramdacs....not gonna be a 3d powerhouse

edit: actually, I was telling my boss to get those when we did our computer upgrades a few months ago. We use 4 monitors at work....he opted for the Matrox G200MMS. They're "ok", but I'd rather have gone with the Quadro NVS. woulda been less expensive too.

I'm thinking about getting one of these on eBay for my collection.

Dual Savage 4s

 

[Grall]

It's got a bridge chip on it. The MX dual-chip card didn't (and wasn't that PCI only? *EDIT* Though this one is too I just noticed, hehe *EDIT*).

It also got the same heatsink as the NV34s, and BGA memory chips too. So it's certainly not a year old!

TRY HARDER, dammit!


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[BoardBonobo]

I think the Predator 2 was two Savage3D chips in line, I have no iea about the NVS 400 though...

[edit]

OK, NVS 400 was two Quadro4 GPU's, So why's that being shown at Cebit '03?

 

[Mulciber]

It's got a bridge chip on it. The MX dual-chip card didn't (and wasn't that PCI only? *EDIT* Though this one is too I just noticed, hehe *EDIT*).

It also got the same heatsink as the NV34s, and BGA memory chips too. So it's certainly not a year old!

TRY HARDER, dammit!


*G*

trust me, its a year old. it's 2 quadro 4MX chips, nVidias been using BGA memory since the GF4 line. and its always had the bridge.

heres PNYs, they've had em for a while now
http://www.shentech.com/pnyquad4nvs4.html

BoardBonobo you're right haha I spoke to soon. It is dual savage 3ds. still fun though

 

[Tahir2]

There is a big HiNT on the picture Mulciber linked to.

Sorry couldn't resist!

 

[Tagrineth]

By the way, the Quadro NVS cards are designed specifically for 4-monitor operation; 3D is disabled on those cards due to severe instability (IIRC)

 

[KimB]

By the way, the Quadro NVS cards are designed specifically for 4-monitor operation; 3D is disabled on those cards due to severe instability (IIRC)

Got this from the Anandtech article here:

The Quadro4 NVS line is targeted squarely at Matrox's market share and it does so with two distinct products - the 200 NVS and the 400 NVS. Although the Quadro4 NVS GPU is based off of the NV17GL chip, the cards are not certified for use in any 3D applications. NVIDIA's reasoning behind this is that these markets aren't concerned with 3D performance and the NVS line will have particularly poor 3D performance (much like the Matrox cards they're up against). This leads us to believe that the core/memory clocks of the NVS lines will be noticeably lower than that of the GeForce4 MX desktop lines, potentially even lower than the GeForce4 MX 420.

So, it looks like it may well support 3D graphics (well, it says so at nVidia's website), but the performance will be particularly poor.

 

[jb]

I just test and approved an Q4 NVS400 card here for work. It took me about an hour to find 3 extra monitors and another power plug so I could get them all working

The only app that showed a bit of a slow down was ProE and that was not too bad. It worked out pretty well. After a week of playing with that..errr I mean testing, heheeh, I had to send the card back. And now I feel so cramped with just one monitor..ahhh oh well life will go on...