On 5/30/06, Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hallo, Esben Stien hat gesagt: // Esben Stien wrote: > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > What does everyone think? > > It's a hobbyist solution, in my opinion. It's not a scalable general > solution; it's special purpose computing. 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.
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
