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Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders
mollyhackit writes "The Open Graphics Project, which we've been following since it first started looking for experts four years ago, has just announced that the OGD1 is available for preorder now. The design features 2 DVI, 256MB RAM, PCI-X, and a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA along with a nonvolatile FPGA for programming on boot. FPGAs are reprogrammable hardware which means the graphics card can be optimized for specific tasks and execute them faster than a general purpose CPU. The card could be programmed for certain codecs to speed up encoding or decoding. An open hardware design means potential for better driver support. Of course you could always use the FPGA for something else... say crypto cracking."
They're probably going to own 100% of the high-price videocard market with that.
crypto cracking
The 297th lap is where you'll be changing your mind on that one.
Modding Trolls +1 inciteful since 1999
...but this one goes to 11.
My motherboard is PCI you insensitive clod!
I'm not a nerd. Nerds are smart.
Well, hopefully the next version will upgrade to the SPARTAN 300 FPGA instead. Not exactly cheap, but much more efficient.
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Ricejob it is.
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