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[the Chase]

Ageia cards now for sale. And no, I'm not marketing for Ageia. Buy one and tell me if it's worth the cash. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PhysX_Accelerators.html

Edit- From what I hear overclockers has listed stuff to be in stock before when it has been questionable if it really was or not and then your on backorder forever. I would wait on this....

 

[Dethfrumbelo]

Even if I wanted it, where the hell am I going to put it? No free/unobstructed PCI slots left.

 

[the Chase]

MMMM....wedge it in the same slot as your sound card? Special sound effects with every physics related action!!

 

[003]

I'll get one closer to the time UT2007 comes out.

 

[the Chase]

Yeah that game might help this sell a little better. Also hopefully price will be lower then too.

 

[Killrose]

I cant wait to see this thing in action with a supported game. Will be interesting to see how much off-loading this will take from GPU/CPU in the real world.

 

[cpacini]

Bahh, they cant make this thing passivly cooled?

 

[fierydemise]

I'll consider it once I see what it does in games that support it

 

[otispunkmeyer]

thats cool, that place is my favourite shop, such a wide selection of everthing.

why do they even bother offering retail version....i guarrantee everyone who wants to buy this plugs for the OEM

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: cpacini
Bahh, they cant make this thing passivly cooled?

im sure it can be arranged......get your DIY hat on.

hopefully the mounting holes are in fairly standar posistions...might be able to slap a VF 700 on it or something

 

[xtknight]

I saw a clever ad for this in Maximum PC so I guess that's a good sign. If there's enough marketing, it may succeed.

 

[the Chase]

Yeah it's one of those things that if enough peeps jump on it, a lot more game devels. will code for it and I think it add a lot to the experience of a game. Just hate to be one of the 1st 3000 or so people that buy it and find out not enough other peeps do and it never ends up being used in enough games and dies off...

 

[sodcha0s]

I'd say eventually these things will be a must have. (at least for hardcore types.. ) Also I'd bet they wind up being intergrated onto the video card or even the motherboard.

 

[Auric]

Yeah, I remember Maximum PC being loaded with 3DFX ads and we all know how long that company lasted :roll:

 

[zephyrprime]

Is there going to be a pcie version of this?

 

[allies]

Originally posted by: Auric
Yeah, I remember Maximum PC being loaded with 3DFX ads and we all know how long that company lasted :roll:

And look where the graphics card industry is today, largely because of them :disgust:

 

[the Chase]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Is there going to be a pcie version of this?

Probably not for quite a while. Some devices (like sound cards says Creative) don't operate too well on the pcie channel. Im not sure if thats bs or not or if a physics card will have the same "problems" on pcie as sound cards. Either way I wouldn't bet on it for at least 1-2 years. I wouldn't be suprised however if they came out with a revision 2 in 6-8 months to iron out bugs in the card...

 

[mazeroth]

I can't see how these things are going to make a big difference. Look at games right now, such as Oblivion, that have killer physics. You can play Oblivion totally maxed with a 2.2 to 2.4ghz Athlon 64. Now, use a dual core Athlon, use one of the cores only for physics, and I don't see why you'd ever need to purchase an add-on card to handle the physics side.

 

[josh6079]

I've wondered the same thing sometimes. We make GPU's to take stress off of the processor, then we give processors two cores, then we make a physics card to take stress off of the processor's core(s) and GPU(s)....wtf is the processor going to do?

 

[santz]

Originally posted by: josh6079
I've wondered the same thing sometimes. We make GPU's to take stress off of the processor, then we give processors two cores, then we make a physics card to take stress off of the processor's core(s) and GPU(s)....wtf is the processor going to do?

OMG, I CANT STOP LAUGHING, YOU ARE SO RIGHT, GOD, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST TRUTHFUL AND FUNNIEST INSIGHTS I HAVE EVER READ SO FAR.

good one, will remember that for quite a while

 

[santz]

Still cannot stop laughing, LMAO

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: josh6079
I've wondered the same thing sometimes. We make GPU's to take stress off of the processor, then we give processors two cores, then we make a physics card to take stress off of the processor's core(s) and GPU(s)....wtf is the processor going to do?

Remember we also need a AI card

 

[Chocolate Pi]

Originally posted by: mazeroth
I can't see how these things are going to make a big difference. Look at games right now, such as Oblivion, that have killer physics. You can play Oblivion totally maxed with a 2.2 to 2.4ghz Athlon 64. Now, use a dual core Athlon, use one of the cores only for physics, and I don't see why you'd ever need to purchase an add-on card to handle the physics side.

I can't stop laughing either; this guy is totally off his rocker!

Have you PLAYED Oblivion? Killer physics? Oblivion does have good physics, but compare it to what AGEIA is promising and it utterly pales in comparison. Seen the Cell Factor HD video?

The "extra CPU core" argument is an utter pile of trash too; why not throw out the GPU now that we can assign that extra CPU core to run graphics instead? It's not like we can put AI or animation on it, no way, it's just going to sit there forever doing nothing. Who needs a sound card, we can emulate all this stuff in software on our numerous slow CPUs! Specialized hardware is for the weak! *rolls eyes*

 

[sodcha0s]

I take it some of you didn't see the demo of what this card is capable of. It is truly impressive, and there is no way any modern GPU would be able to handle it AND render the scene. This thing will be a graphics EVOLUTION.

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: sodcha0s
I take it some of you didn't see the demo of what this card is capable of. It is truly impressive, and there is no way any modern GPU would be able to handle it AND render the scene. This thing will be a graphics EVOLUTION.

Agreed. I'm down for one of these once there is a game out that can use it.