[geeks] Re: XIO V10 card size question

[Kevin]

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Perhaps it was XBow 1.3, it's all getting blurry now:) What is
the difference between SI and SSE?  Texture RAM?

/KRM

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:27:24 +1300
Gavin Hubbard <ghub005 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> 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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