> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.killscreen.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Gaming graphics card or interplanetary research tool? Uni student says both.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/http-www-stuff-co-nz-auckland-local-news-north-shore-tim/
- Published: 2011-06-08T15:04:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:53:23.000Z
- Description: Kiwi university student Joe Ling used a $400 graphics card to discover orphan planets in the universe. No word if the card rendered the ghosts of noobs slain in battle.: Without the gaming card it would take hundreds of computers to configure the information and cost thousands of dollars, Mr Ling sa
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](http://killscreendaily.com/includes/img/focus-areas/galaxy_sky.jpg)

Kiwi university student Joe Ling used a $400 graphics card to discover orphan planets in the universe. No word if the card rendered the ghosts of noobs slain in battle.:

>  
>  
>  
> Without the gaming card it would take hundreds of computers to configure the information and cost thousands of dollars, Mr Ling says.  
>  
> It would normally take one month to complete processing on a normal desktop computer, but with the graphics processing unit inside the gaming card it takes only six hours.  
>  
> About 10 giant free-floating gas planets have been discovered. They are believed to not be orbiting stars.  
>  
> Mr Ling’s supervisor and computer scientist Ian Bond led the team to discover the planets.  
>  
> “They’re giant planets in our galaxy, around the size of Jupiter and somewhere between us and those distant background stars,” he says.

  
\[[via](http://Gaming%20graphics%20card%20or%20interplanetary%20research%20tool?%20Uni%20student%20says%20both.), [img](http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/?ref=killscreen.com)\]