PNY Technologies nVIDIA Quadro FX 550G 1GB DDR2 PCI Express Graphics Card

For the low price of $4,219.99 you can purchase a PNY Technologies nVIDIA Quadro FX 550G 1GB DDR2 PCI Express Graphics Card from Dell. Yes, you can be the only kid on the block able to play the Electronic Arts game Crysis!

The nVidia® Quadro FX 550G 1 GB DDR2 PCIE Graphics Card by PNY Technologies® is an ideal solution for applications requiring high levels of immersive realism or interactive visualization that utilize Frame Lock or Genlock functionality to choreograph multi-device film and video environments or visualization clusters for effects rendering, scientific or engineering use. Film and video pre- and post-production professionals can easily integrate the Quadro FX 5500 into production workflows allowing effects professionals high creative capabilities while dramatically shortening the time from creative concept to finished production. Moreover, scientists and engineers can develop scalable, open standards driven, visualization clusters.

Electronic Arts Crysis
    Tech Specs

  • Device Type: Graphics adapter
  • Enclosure Type: Plug-in card
  • Interface Type: PCI Express x16
  • Compatibility: PC
  • Graphics Processor / Vendor: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5500
  • RAMDAC Clock Speed: 400 MHz
  • Video Memory Installed: 1 GB
  • Technology: GDDR2 SDRAM 256-bit
  • Max Resolution (external): 3840 x 2400 / 24 Hz
  • API Supported: OpenGL 2.0, DirectX 9.0c
  • Digital Video Standard: Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
  • Interfaces: 2 x DVI-I - 29 pin combined DVI ¦ 2 x frame lock - RJ-45 ¦ 1 x genlock out
  • Compatible Slots: 1 x PCI Express x16
  • Cables Included: 2 x DVI-VGA adapter
  • Software Included: Drivers & Utilities, MAXtreme, POWERdraft
  • OS Required: Linux, Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP
  • Peripheral / Interface: CD-ROM, 350W power supply
  • System Requirements Details: Linux - Pentium 4 - RAM 256 MB - HD 50 MB ¦ Windows 2000/XP - Pentium 4 - RAM 256 MB - HD 50 MB

So, how about it? It is worth $4,219.99 to be able to play a game with all the graphic options turned on?

Since the Crysis demo came out I have been hearing nothing but flak from the gaming community about how it is an awesome game but you can't play it because of the graphic needs of the game. If you have $4K (more than I paid for my last computer by a factor of seven) you can buy this powerful graphics card and perhaps play the game on normal graphic settings. I kid!

Crysis says it requires a NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS/640 or similar with 256MB of VRAM (Supported chipsets: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT or greater; ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro for Vista) or greater. Laptop versions of these chipsets may work but are not supported. Integrated chipsets are not supported. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.) for the graphics to work so why not splurge and buy this beast?