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Your missing the point.
I read the reviews, Seen all the benchmarks on the review website. But to say that a PhysX card is a waste of momey right now is wrong. The software to run on it isnt here yet but with out the hardware would they even bother writing it? No one was writing great game software to use your dual gfx card setup dual core cpu and 7.1 sound system before they were made in the hope someone would one day maybe, might just think about making them!!
There is talk of adding phyics effect to graphics cards yes but that wont be as good and at the cost of one of your dual gfx cards ( both ATI and Nvidia have said as much ).
Both current PhysX cards will work in any dual gfx card set up, or in a single card setup. No one is planning to release a PCIe version not till PCI is phased out as they aren't needed PCI can handle all the needs of the card.
As for being a waste of money just have a look at one of the big name game engines that has PhysX built in " The Unreal 3 Engine ie UT2007". Its being built from the ground up to use the card and all the features it has, so every game built on it will make full use of it. Just think of the Unreal Engine 2 and all the games built on that and then times that by three ( PC, Xbox360, PS3 ).
So soon there will be more great games using it. Making it a must have peice of kit.
Its the chicken and the egg here, buy the egg first then maybe for once you can think about counting your chickens :P
Information
In case anyone was wondering, and to clear up confusion, this is NOT a graphics card, this is a PHYSICS card. That means it will allow your machine to make more accurate use of events like grenades and explosives having an effect on people and walls around them in games. It will not affect AI or graphics at all (not directly at least).
http://www.ageia.com/physx_in_action/index.html
Samples on the PhysX site show examples and pictures of events with and without a Physics Card installed. I highly encourage people to go and browse their website, and download the videos of the new games out with their physics card. They're about 100MB each, but WELL worth it, trust me.
This card is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Just a little PCI card, nothing special in itself, plug it in, and install the drivers. I dont know how I could live without mine now. Real life? Who needs it? :D
Question
What I want to know and this has not been answered in any review I know is;
1. Is this card compatable with a SLI system?
2. If so, do you need two cards to be fitted?
3. does anyone know when BFG are going to release the PCI-E version of the cards which will slot into x1 ports next to x16's instead of using PCI slots
Ageia`s PPU (Physics Processing Unit)
Personally, what other people think is of no interest to me.
I am an avid Unreal Tournament player, and i will be purchasing the card for UT2007. No doubts.
The Game has been built with the PPU in mind, so i am expecting (Check Out the E3 Demo !!) awesome effects. Remember, current game titles have ADDED the PPU features to their games. The next generation of games it will be IN-BUILT !!
I CAN`T WAIT.
If we build it they will come
That is the idea that ageia have at the mo
I am a pro gamer lol n i recon all games fall 2008 will require one of these and by that time these should be cheaper i dont have one my self but i will buy one as soon as i see those *physicsX required* games on the shelf of my local store lol.
Yes nvidia n ati r making their own but they wont be as good as the ageia ones simply because all ati and nvidia r going to do is provide drivers that convert a grapics card in to physics card so the there is no real PPU in their cards its just a GPU driven by PPU drivers.
But this is true PPu and lol its cheaper than buying a third ait radeon X1900 or a nvidia 7950 or second if u dont have sli lol
also these babys are not goin in todays beast consoles
Also in the future motherboards will prob have their own built on to them like you can get onboard VGA's but the same principule applys. the onboards simply do not match up to todays graffix caeds and the same will apply to physics cards
Answer to the previous poster
The game you are on about is Alan Wake.
ATI support?
Does this only support Nvidia Cards/chipsets or does it support ATI Cards/crossfire cards. Because i wanna hopefully run this along with 2 ATI Radeon 2900 series cards.
Would this PhysX card run Oblivion..?
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Windows XPHi their, its very nice to see all your comments on this product but what I want to know is if this card will help run Oblivion with my current card (PCI: Nvidia 256 mb PNY Technology). My current card is able to run Oblivion on low settings but is still a bit jumpy. I was wandering if this card will take some stress off my current Graphics card and run oblivion smoothly.
Please respond to this topic..
Thank you.
Does this support Vista??
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Windows VistaDoes anyone know if this card supports Vista as iv found out alot of things dont work properly in Vista and still has alot of bugs.
Answer question from 2-JUN
I would say this would be compatible with any system inc SLi as it uses its own PCI slot (not PCI-e). Basicall its just an add-on and because of that i dont see why they would need to bring out a pci-e version. AS you can see, there is no ports at the back of it, but i have read reviews on this and if i had a spare £200 to throw away, i would buy one of these!
