[Bf-committers] NVidia support: free quadros!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

The boards have arrived here! Based on the interest people have shown,  
this is how it'll be distributed:

Quadro FX3450, 256 MB, Joe Eagar
Quadro FX1500, 256 MB, Andrea Weikert
Quadro FX550, 128 MB, Roland Hess
Quadro FX350, 128 MB, Johnny Matthews

Now there's still an unclaimed Quadro FX4500 for Mac G5, PCI Express,  
512 MB. It probably fits in intel Mac Pro too, have to find out. I will  
put it in stock here for later decision...

-Ton-



On 24 Aug, 2006, at 13:45, Ton Roosendaal wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've met one of the Nvidia tech-support people on Siggraph, and  
> discussed opportunities to support Blender development. Follow-ups on  
> this have resulted in:
>
> - we can get early access to driver releases, with developer login to  
> give feedback and "certify" driver releases. (Todo: who likes to do  
> this?)
>
> - related to that, we'll get listed here:	
>   http://www.nvidia.com/page/partner_certified_drivers.html
>
> - best of all: we get a couple (I asked 5, unconfirmed) free Quadro  
> cards. One of the cards will be for Macs, the others for PCs.
>
> As for the ATIs we got two years ago, I'd like to make a shortlist of  
> people who are in urgent need for a 3d card upgrade.
>
> I've already added Andrea (PC, Windows) and Jean-Luc (Mac) on that  
> list. I know Joe Eagar also really suffers a bad 3d card, but he's  
> using a laptop still (get a PC man!).
> Just mail me personal if you'd like to get a free quadro! But note  
> that active developers really will get a preference...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ton-
>
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