I just whent 2 scan 2 see what things are going for price whys.
And see this gfx card for 5.250.33
http://www.scan.co.uk/product.aspx?ProductId=27926
And see this gfx card for 5.250.33
http://www.scan.co.uk/product.aspx?ProductId=27926
5.250.33+vat for this.
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Yeah but most "professional" tools are like that. Look at MS office, to get everything (and aren't Long John Silver or a student) you are looking at a big price tag.
I use chemdraw office quite a bit and if I wanted to purchase that it would be $3500 for a company or £1500 as a student. Sometimes I love being a student and getting the free stuff.
You do pay a huge amount for them because they have such low numbers being built and the drivers are much better than the standard Nvidia ones. I bet the tech support is better as well, but really, unless you have a big rich company paying, its not worth it. (Or if you happen to find a well known retailer who can't chech its own price)
I use chemdraw office quite a bit and if I wanted to purchase that it would be $3500 for a company or £1500 as a student. Sometimes I love being a student and getting the free stuff.
You do pay a huge amount for them because they have such low numbers being built and the drivers are much better than the standard Nvidia ones. I bet the tech support is better as well, but really, unless you have a big rich company paying, its not worth it. (Or if you happen to find a well known retailer who can't chech its own price)
Next you'll be telling me an i7 extreme costs £900 to make. It still costs almost nothing compared to the R&D costs. Look at pharmaceuticals, with the exception of something like cisplatin due to its platinum content, the vast majority of drugs are very cheap to manufacture, but the R&D is huge. What you pay for is that R&D and support. Obviously if you can afford to pay for those chips now, in two years, an upgrade will still be affordable. Big buisness has huge money which goes on this sort of thing.
Production may not be really expensive, but research and implementation is. CAD programmers who make the actual applications ánd are good enough to be programming at hardware level are extremely rare, which probably also makes them extremely expensive to hire. Aside from that, the card is based on a gaming chipset but there's about a dozen extra (expensive) controllers on it, hence the triple slot.
Rastalovich
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The 3 slot versions are the same as the 2 slot but with a HD-SDI welded to them... plus £2000
Live HD-broadcasting realtime.
Don't play games as well as u might think.
O and there are more expensive ones into £7000+
Live HD-broadcasting realtime.
Don't play games as well as u might think.
O and there are more expensive ones into £7000+
*looks through back pocket*...daaaang.
If you need to that sort of cad/design/stereo stuff, its worth it.
Is it possible using normal monitors to output a polarised image, which could be viewed in 3D with polarised 3d goggles, or does this require some sort of expensive pair of projectors with polarising filters on? (Just for the sake of having 3D molecules accurately simulated.)
If you need to that sort of cad/design/stereo stuff, its worth it.
Is it possible using normal monitors to output a polarised image, which could be viewed in 3D with polarised 3d goggles, or does this require some sort of expensive pair of projectors with polarising filters on? (Just for the sake of having 3D molecules accurately simulated.)
You would probably need equipment costing thousands of pounds 
Personally I do not think these cards are worth it at all. I never never heard of them actually being put to use if you have a serious CPU, and for renders you can set up a core i7 4cpu cluster with that kind of money.
Personally I do not think these cards are worth it at all. I never never heard of them actually being put to use if you have a serious CPU, and for renders you can set up a core i7 4cpu cluster with that kind of money.
I take your 5k and raise you:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-21-169-0
Every time Im on there Im always tempted oh well.:nono:
http://www.scan.co.uk/Index.aspx?NT=1-0-21-169-0
Every time Im on there Im always tempted oh well.:nono:
Rastalovich
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I believe, although I can't confirm at this point, that their cuda-esq performance and other qualities cannot be duplicated by something like... a gtx295 for example.
On the flip side, I know they don't do gaming benchmarks too well.
What struck me tho is latter cards contain the same G200 gpu or summit, so that kinda throws some of that out the window.
Ho-hum.
On the flip side, I know they don't do gaming benchmarks too well.
What struck me tho is latter cards contain the same G200 gpu or summit, so that kinda throws some of that out the window.
Ho-hum.
name='Rastalovich' said:
Yeah I would think that even though it's got a GTX200 GPU it has been 'tuned' for a specific task. A bit like a rally car - same engine, but can be tuned for specific race tracks. Lots of straights - lots of power in the high gears, lots of corners - power in the low gears.
I find this price a bit high. I hate to say it (and it really does burn) but you could buy a mac pro with that card in it for £3160, and for that you get a few other bits (like the case, a motherboard, memory processor and hard disk). Seems a bit odd, maybe Scan have mispriced it?
