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Open Source Graphics Card Available For Advance Orders

Posted by timothy on from the one-blast-from-both-the-past-and-future dept.

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."

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  1. $1500 video card! by WarwickRyan · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're probably going to own 100% of the high-price videocard market with that.

    1. Re:$1500 video card! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah but there's a $100 discount for early orders, and they're throwing in a $65 programming interface cable absolutely free! So $1500 is a gross exaggeration ... it's really only a $1335 video card.

    2. Re:$1500 video card! by Veggiesama · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hey, I thought open-source was supposed to be free!

      I call shenanigans!

      Guess it's time to go back to my cheaper boot-legged graphics card.

    3. Re:$1500 video card! by RebelWithoutAClue · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're wrong. The video card is only $63 so it's just a 1337 video card.

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    4. Re:$1500 video card! by xSauronx · · Score: 5, Funny

      so what do they do after those 9 sales?

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