[geeks] XIO V10 card size question

[Kurt Huhn]

Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> So, uhh, lets see.  $4500 for this, $3500 for the R14k, $500 for an
> upgradable octane, $500 for a FC-AL card, and $1k for a PVO.  Thats, uh,
> $9k.  Add another $2k for Maya, and $1k for 2 monitors, and we have a
> $12k highend studio not quite in a box.  Of course, we could substitute
> a $3500 DVO option, which would allow one to use firewire, but you would
> have to get a bridge.  Well, things are falling, but still not cheap.
> 

Don't forget that you need the Xbow 1.4 (backplane) to support V10 graphics,
and the motherboard to take the R14k processor, as well as the proper power
supply.  A regular R10k Octane won't have these, and chances are very good
that an R12k Octane won't either.

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Kurt
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