[SunRescue] OT: FS: SGI Crimson RE

David Michaud rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Apr 9 22:02:05 CDT 2001


nick at snowman.net wrote:
> 
> Erm, if an Indy is going to cost you 500$ spend the extra 200-300$ and get
> yourself an O2.  I have seen/heard of many o2 systems going for under
> 800$.  I belive workstations.net has them for 695$ right now, though that
> is sans monitor.
>         Nick
> (And the MAX impact is pulling what I would consider an unreasonable
> premium over the solid/high impact systems)
> 

Those O2's have no AV option.

Also: Max IMPACT = 2 * High IMPACT = 4 * Solid IMPACT. Henc, the price
difference. Max IMPACT GE's pop out 1GFLOP geometry perf with AA...
That's also with 4MB TRAM. So, not at all unreasonable, considering you
can twirl 2.2M polys in realtime with full texture.

-Dave



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