30 May
2006
30 May
'06
6:44 a.m.
On 5/30/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar(a)footils.org> wrote:
Hallo,
Esben Stien hat gesagt: // Esben Stien wrote:
2 6600LE Nvidia cards (SLI), 256 mb per card. AUD56 i.e 33 euro. (how
much i paid) So 2 of them, 512 mb ram, and to really damn fast dsp
chips on a pci-e buss for 66 euro. Umm..... that beats any midlevel
cpu by so much. The cheapest amd64 chip here is the $165 AUD 939
3000+. Or you can have 2 nvidias and a amd64 dual core chip in one
machine... compare that to the cheapest smp machines.
Loki
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net writes:
I agree: The GPUs by NVidia/Ati are powerful DSP chips. But they also
come in very expensive packages easily reaching 400 or 500 Eurodollar.
That's more than a midlevel general purpose CPU including RAM.
What does everyone think?
It's a hobbyist solution, in my opinion. It's not a scalable general
solution; it's special purpose computing.