480 GTX: 275 watt TDP?

[F1shF4t]

While I absolutely don't care about either fermi or cypress, (comes with skipping this whole generation of cards), I do find it funny when people throw around things like 100,000 being penuts etc.

While the figure might be small compared to the whole budget, no one will throw it to the wind for no reason if there is an alternative and equally viable solution.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

While I absolutely don't care about either fermi or cypress, (comes with skipping this whole generation of cards), I do find it funny when people throw around things like 100,000 being penuts etc.

While the figure might be small compared to the whole budget, no one will throw it to the wind for no reason if there is an alternative and equally viable solution.

As an accountant I can tell you that depending on what you are doing 100 000$ can easily be beneath the threshold where they would even care. It's all about relative importance. If you build your rig and it ends up costing 30$ more because of something you did not think about when you planned it you aren't going to make a big deal out of it.

If their budget for running a supercomputer is 50 million dollars just to get the thing setup + a couple million a month in operating costs. 100k is easily insignificant.