[geeks] Re: XIO V10 card size question

[Gavin Hubbard]

My EBay sourced 300MHz R12k Octane came with V6/V8 capable Xbow 1.3 installed.

However I'm currently only running the SSE (ESSI) graphics that it came with. 

Regards,

Gavin


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I'm pretty sure the dual R12k i was bidding on last
week had Xbow 1.4

/KRM

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:27:50 -0500
Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> Kurt
> kurt at k-huhn.com
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