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Follow UsNvidia has been propagating the concept of optimized PCs, and in line with
this, the Indian division of the company came up with the idea of organizing a
workshop on this subject for its channel partners comprising systems integrators
and resellers. At this workshop, the attendees would be shown how creating such
a machine could ensure that their customers have better performance at lower
price.
“We held a pilot event at Pune recently and it was very successful, and now
we are planning to have similar events around the world,” said Rajesh Goenka,
Country Manager-Marketing, Nvidia India.
The same event was held in Mumbai last week, which saw participation of
around 150 partners, and it will be soon taken to Cochin. The company plans to
have the optimized PC workshop as an ongoing series this year, and is finalizing
the cities where it will pitch its tents for it.
The format of the event is a hands-on training session where partners are
divided into various groups and each group is furnished with an indicative price
list of the various components that go within a PC and are asked to assemble a
machine using these components with up till the range of Rs 30,000. The
non-optimized PCs use quad-core and dual-core proÂcessors. These machines are
then benchmarked for performance.
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Then the same groups are given the Nvidia products to build an optimized PC
using Pentium D processors and GeForce 9600GT graphics cards. A performance
comparison is then conducted between the non-optimized and the optimized PCs to
see which one fared better across all benchmarking tests.
The teams that build the best performing machines under than Rs 30,000 won a
cash prize of Rs 30,000. The two runner up teams got Rs 20,000 and Rs 10,000,
respectively.
The objective behind this exercise was to educate systems assemblers about
the possibilities of building PCs, where the CPU is not the be-all and end-all.
Nvidia officials said that the GPUs can run various applications like video
encoding, picture editing, video editing, photoshop, etc much faster than the
quad-core processors.
“Today the PC is no longer a computing device nor is it used only for office
applications and e-mail.
It is being used for gaming, video and music downloading, playback, editing
of movies and pictures and a host of other applications, which are
high-resolution dependent. In this scenario, the importance of a graphics card
is highly underlined but not clearly understood. We want to change this with a
hands-on workshop like this event,” added Goenka.