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The Open Graphics Project has just announced that the OGD1 is available for preorder. The design features 2 DVI, 256MB RAM, PCI-X, and a Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA along with a nonvolatile FPGA for programming on boot. This looks quite interesting as this has uses beyond having an open-source graphics card. This card uses FPGAs which means general processing can also be implemented, this could have uses in fields like crypto and sound processing.