3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110 Now in Integrator Channel

White boxes mean gray market availability and, while we're not condoning that fact, it means that some of those white boxes have a tendency to trickle down into the hands of those with the right connections. 3Dlabs is now white-boxing its Wildcat II 5110 graphics card to members of its Wildcat Partner Program. As most of you know, 3Dlabs purchased the Wildcat product line from Intergraph in 2000, and continued Intergraph's tradition of only letting OEMs get their hands on them. The Wildcat 4110 was first released to the channel in early May and now the Wildcat II 5110 will be joining it out in the public eye. 3Dlabs says that both cards are available exclusively to system integrators and OEMs who build high-end OpenGL-based systems for graphics-intensive fields such as computer aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC), geophysical, medical and visual simulation. The Wildcat II 5110 features a dual-pipeline architecture with new geometry accelerator and rasterization engine, support for AGP Pro 4X slots, optimization for P4 processor-based workstations, a combined 144 MB dedicated DirectBurst frame buffer and texture memory, hardware-accelerated 3D volumetric texturing, SuperScene scene-based anti-aliasing, OpenGL 1.2-compliant image processing, and standard VGA and DVI-I outputs for single-board dual-screen capability under Windows 2000. Even if you can somehow get someone to sell you one, it won't be cheap. Uwe recently took a look at professional OpenGL accelerators , including the Wildcat II 5110, and says that the cards (usually in systems) are priced at around $2,500.