First post, by Irinikus
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This is quite an interesting and reasonably rare external Nvidia graphics setup from the 2006 era!
Here are some pics of the Quadro Plex itself:
Here are the specs:
This was its original price:
This is the Nvidia Quadro Plex interface card which I have installed in my Alienware machine:
My Alienware Area51 7500 - Machine Specs:
* EVGA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
* QX6850 @ 3.67GHz
* 8GB Patriot DDR2 @ 800MHz CL 4-4-4-12
* Quadro Plex 1000 Model IV (Dual Quadro FX 5600)
* Two Kingston 240GB A400 SATA 3 2.5" Internal SSD SA400S37/240G - HDD’s in RAID 0
* Fusion-io ioDrive2Duo 2.4TB MLC Flash SSD PCIe Accelerator Card
Here the inside of the system, with the interface card slotted:
Here are the Quadro Plex's GPUbench results:
Here's how GPU-Z sees the Quadro Plex 1000:
This is the 3DMark06 score:
Using MSI Afterburner, the system statistics show that this machine in it's current configuration with the Quadro Plex can do what two 8800 Ultras in SLI simply wouldn't have been able to do, as they'd be out of video memory!
I've built this system to demonstrate the performance of the Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000 Model IV running on period specific hardware. (This video just shows the setup.)
This video shows the system being benchmarked:
This video shows the Crisis gaming performance: