NEW Predator Pro 2 Dual DVI Graphics 2D/3D Accelerator Card!

Predator Pro 2 PCI-DVI Graphics 2D/3D Accelerator Card (Part N. 612382)
retails for $650
I will sell it for $300 OBO, it is new in the box. Free shipping.
email me with questions.

Features:

PC99 Compliant
Y2K Compliant
Two independently programmable S3 Savage4 accelerators
Hardware based graphic operations
300 MHz video DAC for extended resolutions of 1600x1200, non-interlaced @ 85Hz
Power Management
DDC Monitor Communications
Supports up to 2 screens
Includes (2) DVI-D output adapters
Video Memory

143 MHz SDRAM @ 1144 Mbytes/sec. peak memory bandwidth
64 bit Synchronous Memory Bus
32 MEG frame buffer on each port standard
Bus Architecture

32 bit PCI 2.1
Multiple boards can be installled in a single system
Adapters use a single PCI slot
2D Accelerator Features

Highly optimized 128 bit Graphics Engine
BitBlt, Rectangle Fill, Line Draw
Polygon Fill, Font Acceleration
Hardware Cursor
8, 16 and 32 bpp mode acceleration
3D Accelerator Features

Single Cycle 3D architecture
128 bit rendering pipeline
S3 Texture Compression (S3TC)
Hardware bump mapping
32 bit true color rendering
Specular Lighting and Diffuse Shading
Alpha Blending Modes
Full scene anti-aliasing
Vertex and Table Fog
16 or 24 bit Z-buffering
Sprite Anti-Aliasing, Reflection and Environment Mapping, Texture Morphing
Shadows, Procedural Textures and Atmospheric Effects
Software Support

Windows 95
Windows 98/Me
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2000/Xp

[Peter M]

Just to put this into perspective, S3 Savage4 is an old VGA chip. True, twin DVI outputs is not found on any random graphics card, but considering that current stuff like:

http://www.matrox.com/mga/products/m...eries/p650.cfm

retails for well below $200 and is an order of magnitude faster than Savage 4, I'll say $300 is way too steep.

[Sweeper]

Edit

It's fine with me. I need a better understanding of what this thing is worth because all I found was this site selling for $628.

http://store.yahoo.com/salestores/noname117.html

I reviewed a couple of Colorgraphics 4 display Predator series cards back in the day for SysOpt. I remember retail being around $800 back in 2000 for the 4 display Predator Pro AGP.

http://www.sysopt.com/reviews/colorgraphic/index5.html

The real cost of the Predator cards is the engineering and software drivers. As to today's value, your guess is about as good as mine. These are niche market cards intended for professional use, so the price is always higher than consumer-oriented counterparts.

Robert Richmond

[Peter M]

That's the point ... back in 2000, multihead cards were a high end thing, and driver effort was huge because operating systems didn't really support that.

Dual head is a commodity item now, both in hardware since all graphics chips support it anyway (one chip, two heads) and in software.

Three- or Four-Head still isn't found on normal graphics cards, that's where the niche now is. And even there, single chip solutions like Matrox Parhelia eat away from the market share of traditional multi-chip cards.