You will soon be able to buy a video card for your computer with 2 processing chips. Expect to pay over $ 1,500 at first, but the price is supposed to get down to the $ 500 range.
I remember about 10 years ago, I was doing computer-aided drafting on a PC that had a 2 megabyte video card. I really think there is a lot of hype behind the video card business. Personally, I wouldn't spend over $ 80 on a video card, but I am not a gamer. If I had the time and the money, I would like to play with the flight simulator programs. But if I had time and money, I would rather go hiking in the mountains or caving. It is likely that the future of computers is going to be more video oriented. For example, video-conferercing, video-internet phone calls, web-movies, etc. are surely going to become more powerful and more mainstream. So maybe a teraflop video card will be necessary, however, more importantly, its drivers will need to work smoothly with Leopard or Vista or Linux. I would much rather have a cheap video card that works excellent with Vista than a ridiculously expensive card that has to be tinkered with just to get it to operate. I would like my computer to use less electricity. I think that is going to be important someday. I guess it is possible that the video card with 2 processors will use less electricity than 2 video cards linked together, or 1 card that has a super powerful processor. David Locklear Ref: http://hothardware.com/cs/forums/t/39029.aspx --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: ot-subscr...@texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: ot-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: ot-h...@texascavers.com
