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Hot Hardware has posted a review of the Elsa Gloria II video card. This card is based on the Quadro Chipset from Nvidia. Here a clip:



In the last few months, Nvidia has released a global assault on the professional workstation video card arena. It was only a matter of time before gaming cards and professional graphic cards became one. When I first started using high end CAD applications like Pro/Engineer it was on a $28,000 Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 running Unix. Today I do most of my work on an over clocked Windows NT Athlon 900 that I paid $2,400 and it is basically 10 times as fast as the SGI. If someone had told me then, that this was to be the future of CAD workstations, I would have laughed.
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