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You may think that your 3d modeling and prototyping is professional work - and I'm sure it is.

However, you should be thinking of people using CATIA to build an entire car or even more exotic pieces of software for building entire airplanes. We're not talking the piddly few million of polies that the average Disney/Pixar movie ponders about in Maya/etc., even though those would benefit as well - we're talking a dew hundered million polies. Now we're talking 'pro'. Now we're talking the kind of people who used to buy SGI workstations at a couple $10k a piece, then switched to 'generic' workstations but fitted them with E&S (Evans & Sutherland) cards that were so big (similar in design to dual-GPU cards people are messing with now) they had to keep the casings off their machines or the things wouldn't even fit, and who are currently salivating at the nVidia QuadroPlex solutions in both desktop and rackmount form ( http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadroplex.html ) before crying as even they think that's just a might bit too pricy and go back to the suped-up PNY QuadroFX offerings ( http://www2.pny.com/category_buymulti.aspx?Category_ID=329 ).

Consumers, prosumers and small business need not apply. As you do say, it's not worth the extra money (and it -is- a good chunk of extra money) for those groups.

Exactly. How is this news?

an activation key lets you open an account. One account one key.

The process of activation transforms the "activation key" into a named wow account. The activation key, the cd's, the box, the warantee cards.. ALL of that is worthless after an account has been created.

Every game that has an activation key works this way.

Doesn't halflife also tie its keys to a particular steam account?

A more interesting story would be that PNY does not redeme their "lifetime warrantee" on new non opened boxed cards that have been purchased thru ebay. If you try and RMA a card and list it as being baught on ebay or one of ebays many stores, you are NOT eligible for a warantee. This just happened to me, and IMHO is alot less fair.

Whenever I whip out my Executive Pen Drive all other geeks bow down before my greatness.

Grab them here ; these packages include the nvidia-settings GUI tool BTW, which is real nice.

Might be talking about the 'new' beta drivers
http://public.pny.com/quadro/FX3000g/Linux/
I've heard they are not bad and now have a 'Linux control panel' that allows you to graphicly control all of those sweet little tweaks nVidia loves to brag about

Try

http://www.pny.com/home/products/Vcard_MX440_sePCI .cfm

Verto GeForce4 MX 440-SE PCI

NewEgg has them for $82

Its not the best/newest chip set, but seems to me it should be better than a GF2.

...maybe I should've held off on getting my Ti4200..

ATI? I'll never buy another one of their cards.. nVidia is the shiznit, baby!

This is the card you're looking for. The thing that I'm wondering is if CRT's are completely on their way out as a display technology, of if we are going to start seeing CRT's with DVI inputs, from what I understand the bandwidth of the old D-SUB connector is just about fully utilized.