Yes, this isn’t the “Hot Internet Deals Forum” but sometimes it’s really too good not to pass on…
A new GTS250 board for only $35!
This is pretty much identical to a 9800GTX+.
At $35, it’s worth it even if it gathers dust on your shelf as a backup card. It’d also be decent (though overkill) as a display-only card.
You could arguably make some nice Folding@Home boxes with a bunch of these, too.
Thats a pretty good deal! My GTS250 performs as good as a GTX260 on some apps!
GFLOPS/$$ ftw!
Wow, that’s a great deal.
Here’s the Galaxy product page: [url=“http://www.galaxytechus.com/usa/productview.aspx?id=76”]http://www.galaxytechus.com/usa/productview.aspx?id=76[/url]
One thing to note is that the 9800GTX+ and the GTS250 seem to have really highly clocked CUDA cores. So not only are you getting 128 cores but they’re clocked at 1836MHz vs. a typical 1340MHz – a 37% increase.
Also note that the GTS250 supports “Compute Capability” 1.1.
If you can get it to let you order you better hurry because its a typo. This has been confirmed when I tried to order them it is a typo.
Thanks! I ordered six of them (on two separate accounts).
Aaaand, now they’re gone… So much for the hamster cluster.
hehe :D
Awesome - now my new system has a name! (I’ll have to give you an account.) Except that it won’t be the hamster cluster, it will be the hamster SUPERCOMPUTER!
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I may luck out… they just charged my credit card for the 3 I ordered. Thinking about it, I wish I had gotten 10, though!
Check your email. I just got the following notice:
I am kind of thinking that I will refuse the package once I see what is inside.
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They might be Galaxy GTX 480’s: http://www.galaxytechus.com/usa/productview.aspx?id=119 External Media
If they are, take a picture!
Yes!!!
Will do.
A sad day for hamster computing:
I guess $35 GTS250s is a concept ahead of it’s time. Too bad.
