New take off from HP workstation. These cards retail around £500. There's some on ebay at £479.99!

£250 anyone?

Blurb from nvidia website : The NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 is a mid-range workstation graphics solution for CAD, DCC and Scientific applications. Armed with 128 MB DDR memory, 256-bit memory interface, 19.2 GB/s memory bandwidth and NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface technology, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 delivers industry leading performance, -advanced features and programmability at the top end of the price performance segment. Tested and certified with all major DCC, CAD and Scientific applications, engineers and animators alike can achieve tremendous productivity from the precision, performance, programmability and quality of the Quadro FX 1400.

OVERVIEW
NVIDIA QUADRO FX ARCHITECTURE ACHIEVES UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE The NVIDIA Quadro® FX 1400 by PNY mid-range professional graphic board provides the best blend of quality, precision, performance, programmability and price for all professional 3D applications.

The NVIDIA Quadro FX architecture takes application performance to new levels by featuring an array of parallel vertex engines, a radically new line engine and fully programmable pixel pipelines coupled to a high-speed graphics DRAM bus. Pipeline efficiency is further multiplied by NVIDIA's next-generation crossbar memory architecture, enabling occlusion-culling, lossless depth Z-buffer, and color compression.
KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS
Proven Professional Graphics Architecture Parallel vertex engines, programmable pixel pipelines, and workstation specific features result in the industry's highest application performance and quality.

Advanced Vertex and Pixel Programmability
Enables real-time shaders to simulate a wide range of physical effects and surface properties.

Full 128-bit Precision Graphics Pipeline
Enables mathematical computations to maintain high accuracy, resulting in unmatched visual quality.

12-bit Subpixel Precision
3x that of the nearest competitive professional graphics, 12-bit subpixel precision delivers high geometric accuracy, eliminating spreckles, cracks, and other rasterization anomalies.

High Quality Full-Scene Antialiasing (FSAA)
Up to 16x FSAA dramatically reduces visual aliasing artifacts or "jaggies" at resolutions up to 3840x2400, resulting in highly realistic scenes.

PCI Express Support
Designed specifically to take advantage of the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB per second in both upstream and downstream data transfers.

Unified Driver Architecture
Provides easy installation and manageability through a single unified driver for large scale system deployment. The performance and power of the NVIDIA Quadro FX are built on a solid foundation of quality engineering. This engineering excellence is exemplified by the NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), which is certified for quality by the entire spectrum of CAD and DCC applications.


NVIDIA QUADRO FX WORKSTATION GPU
Full 128-bit floating-point precision pipeline
12-bit subpixel precision
8 pixels per clock rendering engine
Hardware accelerated antialiased points and lines
Hardware OpenGL overlay planes
Hardware accelerated two-sided lighting
Hardware accelerated clipping planes
3rd-generation occlusion culling
16 textures per pixel
OpenGL quad-buffered stereo (3-pin sync connector)
Hardware-Accelerated Pixel Read-Back

NEXT GENERATION SHADING ARCHITECTURE
Fully programmable GPU (OpenGL 1.5/DirectX 9.0 class)
Long fragment and vertex programs (up to 65,536 instructions)
Looping and subroutines (up to 256 loops per vertex program)
Dynamic flow control
Conditional execut1on

HIGH-LEVEL SHADER LANGUAGES
Optimized compilers for Cg, OpenGL shading language, and Microsoft HLSL
OpenGL 1.5 and DirectX 9.0 support
Open source compiler

ARCHITECTURE
x16 PCI-Express
128MB high-speed DDR frame buffer
128-bit IEEE floating-point precision graphics pipeline
128-bit color
32-bit floating point frame buffer
12-bit subpixel precision
Unlimited programmability
3D volumetric textures
Single-system powerwall

PACKAGE CONTAINS
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 PCI Express graphics board
CD-ROM Containing:
Drivers for Windows XP, 2000 & NT including DirectX 9.0 and OpenGL 1.5 support
Detailed Installation Guide
Quickstart Installation Guide

Quadro® Application Utilities CD-ROM (MAXtreme™, POWERdraft™)
DVI to VGA Adapters

MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
PC compatible with Intel Pentium® 4/Xeon® or AMD Athlon®/Opteron® class
processor or higher
PCI Express x16 lane bus
Microsoft Windows® XP, 2000, NT4.0, (Service Pack 6) or Linux®
128MB system memory
50MB of available disk space for full installation
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive
VGA or DVI-I compatible monitor
350W Power Supply