Is your Haswell processor too slow? Well of course it is, it only runs at 177 GigaFLOPS, after all. For a limited time, though, you can give your desktop a 1 TeraFLOP boost with a Xeon Phi card.

Intel has been running a special developer promotion by offering the Xeon Phi 31S1P coprocessor card for around $200 since October 17. The deal is expected to run through the end of the year. These cards, which look like a really big video card and fit in a PCI Express slot, normally retail for around $1,695.

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