Albatron Unveils GeForce 8-series Graphics Cards For PCI Slots
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Albatron Technology has unveiled three new Nvidia GeForce 8-series graphics cards that use the practically outdated PCI slot. While the appeal of the PCI8600GT-256X, the PCI8500GT-256X and the PCI8400GS-256 may not be obvious for anyone who has a PCI Express or even AGP slot on their motherboard, there are still quite a few systems (particularly small form factor or HTPC ones) where expansion options are limited, creating an niche market for these cards.
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Is Albatron suggesting that mainly women use older computers? lol
Yep... there's a sort of mini revolution going on in medical imaging... the bandwidth isn't as important since the FPS doesn't need to be perfectly smooth. They are using them like little supercomputers for parallel processing and simulations.
Since it's processor bound as opposed to IO bound (Typically not as many textures) it can be effective on the PCI bus. You made me remember this: http://www.rt-image.com/content=8204J05C485EA486405698764488A0441