Galaxy Offers Wireless GeForce GTX 460 Graphics Card

There are a billion different reasons why having a high-end gaming PC is awesome, but the most common downside is the noise that such a machine can generate. It’s one thing to be enjoying the latest and greatest titles in their high-detailed glory, but it’s another to have to resort to cranking up the volume because all you can hear is the whirring of your PC.

Galaxy, with its sub-brand KFA², tries to tackle this issue in a unique way. It’s created a cable-free graphics card, one that sends wireless signals to and from the PC to your monitor. Alright, it sounds a little crazy at first, but the idea is awesome.

The card, a GeForce GTX 460, features five antennas on the back, and sends a signal to its receiver via the WHDI standard (Wireless Home Digital Device). Once plugged into your display, the signal would then be continually sent from the graphics card to the receiver, completely negating the need for any sort of cable.

The idea is that with this implementation, you could put your PC in a different room, or a closet, where it simply wouldn’t be seen or noticed. At the same time, you’d need to use wireless peripherals with equally-strong signals, but if that doesn’t bother you, this setup does have the potential of being ideal.

Unlike most oddball GPU products that are shown off at conferences, this one actually has a release date… “soon”. Pricing is not known, but you could expect it to cost much more than an ordinary GeForce GTX 460.

WHDI has a range of 30m (around 100ft for those still working in Imperial), and can work through obstacles and walls. This, says KFA2, provides a ‘hassle-free way to connect sources anywhere within a room or enable multiple connections.’ The WHDI standard supports HDCP 2.0, so it can route protected content (Blu-ray films, for example) without a problem.