CELL based PCI-e video accelerator

[dinos22]

H.264 encoder card? Sign me up!

Meeeeeeeeeee tooooooooooooo

[STEvil]

needs more SPE's and ability to put multiple cell cpu's on each card lol

[safan80]

now nobody can say the 1x pci-e slot has no uses lol.

[Neova]

Interesting but needs a "killer app" to help sell the thing and build up support for it.

Hate to see it go the way of the PPU.

[BulldogPO]

H.264 hardware encoding sounds sweet

But this is cripled version of CELL?
We need 4 of those in one card so crunching will be fun
Can QMC be Cruched with CELL?

[strange|ife]

very cool, but have a feeling this is just a ruff prototype. Great concept though, the next few years will be interesting to say the least.

1x pcie? 4x will need to be used at least imo, 2.5Gbps is too little headroom for any serious computations, but for hd encoding should just be right on the mark, still extra headroom from 4x or even 8x slot would be bestt

[Yakyb]

Meeeeeeeeeee tooooooooooooo

thats what i thought at first

Maybe depends how quick it is.
how much faster would it be over a q6600?

[shiznit93]

I love CELL technology. it's the one and only spec I like about the PS3.

Cell is very nice, the FAH numbers on PS3 are just insane, they are over a Petaflop now. RSX is g7x garbage (man I hate that texture shimmering) and much weaker than Xenos, and 360 has the better controller. I hate Xbox Live so I couldn't care less about that, but BluRay is very nice and they PS3 has mandatory HD caching for every game and is damn quiet compared to my blender of a 360.

[Nicksterr]

I'm confused...how can this card be utilized in a PC?

[Frodin]

Another article says it's between 10 and 20W, so no

I am terribly glad my speculation was wrong, with that low tdp it should be pretty easy to cool it passively. With a humongous fanless cooler, lol.

[generics_user]

Cell is very nice, the FAH numbers on PS3 are just insane, they are over a Petaflop now. RSX is g7x garbage (man I hate that texture shimmering) and much weaker than Xenos, and 360 has the better controller. I hate Xbox Live so I couldn't care less about that, but BluRay is very nice and they PS3 has mandatory HD caching for every game and is damn quiet compared to my blender of a 360.

true my 360 is loud as well, but luckily only qhile gaming (and i don't care about it when doing so, my 3870s run @ 80% in 3D (and that is REALLY loud)

hmm need more pciex1 slots (3rd x16 + x1 in use, only pci left) to use this, and a blu-ray drive

[deathman20]

Cool.. would be great for a HTPC. For a general gaming rig probably not the best for, but then again it might work and reduce the load on the CPU/GPU alot. Not bad for a lower powered solution.

[SafeFire]

Interesting but needs a "killer app" to help sell the thing and build up support for it.
Hate to see it go the way of the PPU.

LISTEN UP

It's a CELL based add in card, don't you come talking about a killer application (and don't you even DARE call it killer app).
IT IS POWERFUL AND CAN FOLD, that's all it needs

[Mechromancer]

Maybe ATI or Nvidia will enable video encoding on their cards to compete. That would be nice. Either way, I can't wait to see it get hacked so we can fold on it or emulate a weak PS3. This kind of device is fodder for the hacker community.

[fredthemule]

Last August it was announced that both Side Effects and mental images are working with Sony in developing their new Cell Computing Board, supposedly due to be demonstrated in the second half of 2008. This seems like an altogether meatier offering. Though since that announcement, mental images was bought-out by nvidia, so who knows what the latest is there.

http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?opti...=869&Itemid=55
http://www.mentalimages.com/1_1_news...te/070808.html