PNY Quadro FX 2000 false advertising

[wilson]

I had to shop around to find an e-tailer outside my state; I prefer to file my sales tax myself :D

So I got it from a small outfit called ShopperWiz. I'm pretty sure the box is legit because it was shipped out of a pretty big warehouse in IL. And the barcode on the side of the box ends with "PB" which is the retail box version...

[wilson]

Well, I'm pretty disappointed that PNY/nVidia still haven't sent me a driver that works at 3840x2400 as advertised. I'll keep bugging them next week.

[Shinri Hikari]

I would not count on that e-tailer being legit. I think you would be better off going elsewhere for parts.;)

[wilson]

Front (http://www.harmony-central.com/Test/QFX/QFX2K-front.jpg)

Back (http://www.harmony-central.com/Test/QFX/QFX2K-back.jpg)

One thing of interest (to me) is that the upper DVI port uses 1 Sil164 transmitter and the bottom one uses 2 Sil178 transmitters. So the bottom one is probably the dual-link DVI port.

[wilson]

Originally posted by Shinri Hikari
I would not count on that e-tailer being legit. I think you would be better off going elsewhere for parts.;)

Well, the card was shipped out of a common warehouse in Addison, IL that a lot of e-tailers use. I'm not too worried about it.

[Shinri Hikari]

You again?:afraid:

[wilson]

Originally posted by KoalaX
what's the price you paid for that wilson?

Slightly over $1400 including shipping.

[GlowStick]

let me be the first to say.


Gizfualsigaizinslszijzl

[wilson]

Yay! With slight mod to the 42.82 quadro driver, I was able to run at 3840x2400. PNY and nVidia have redeemed themselves!

I did a quick run of SPECviewperf ProE at 3840x2400 and got a score of 8.9. The highest score at SPEC's site is 39+ at a resolution of 1280x1024. My CPU is only 1.8GHz P4.

[vvolkman]

Dude,

now you need to post us a screen capture of that horrific resolution.

[GlowStick]

Dude, what monitors do ya use? im curious

[wilson]

It's the IBM T221 "Big Bertha" monitor. It has 4 DVI ports and you can drive it with 1, 2 or 4 ports. I'm running it with 2 ports with the Qudaro FX 2000 driving each port at 1920x2400. Neato stuff. It's expensive but I'm not married, I'm not into other stuff, etc.

[GlowStick]

4 dvi ports?

is that like cuz theres not enough bandwith to have such a high res with a high refresh rate so it splits it though many?

sounds awesome, im gonna look it up on ibms site

---------------EDIT

OMG
IBM Web Price
$8,399.00*

Dude, thats an awesome monitor, cost more than my compuetrs... yes all of them!

[wilson]

The monitor itself always refreshes at 41Hz internally--no flickering or anything because it's LCD. It has 96MB of DRAM buffer.

3840x2400x41Hzx24bit gives 9.1Gbit/s of bandwidth to drive this sucker. Theoretically dual-link DVI can go up to 9.9Gbit/s. But at the time the T221 was designed, dual-link was immature and even single-link DVI could not do the theoretical 4.9Gbit/s in the real world. So the PhDs at IBM Research put in 4 DVIs instead and make the monitor look like 4 separate displays. There are no seams or anything in between the stripes/tiles.

To get the max 3840x2400, the refresh rates are:

1xDVI: 13Hz
2xDVI: 25Hz
4xDVI: 41Hz

In two-stripe mode (2xDVI), the 2 DVIs can be asynchronous and can run at different refresh rates and even different resolutions. But if they are not genlocked, you'll see tearing when you drag stuff across the center line.

In four-stripe mode, the 4 DVIs have to be genlocked to within 960 pixels of each other.

[GlowStick]

Wow neato, id like to play with something like that.

But i dont have the funds :)