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upgrade confusion..physx a factor?

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I'm going to upgrade from an x1800xt 256mb in the next week or two and was leaning towards the radeon 4870. However the recent release of the Nvidia physx drivers and the price drop of the GTX 260 has confused my choices. :confused:

I have a 22" monitor so will be gaming at 1680 x 1050 on an E6300 @ 3.1GHZ.

Is physx really going to affect many games in the next year or so?
What would be the best choice?
 
Great post as i have the same concerns. I'm a massive Total War fan and E:TW will include Physx code in the game. What are the opinions on the 280, is it too much for RTS games? I'm not a great fan of FPS (except Q3) so is the Ati offering just too good value?

Ohh are there really going to be Physx drivers for Ati? If so that will be an amazing deal for Ati with their current range
 
http://www.ngohq.com/news/14254-physx-gpu-acceleration-radeon-update.html

Yep looks like it will be a level playing field again soon!

Some other good news, we are getting a lot of help from cool journalists like Theo Valich to address the HD 4800 access issue. I can confirm that our CUDA Radeon library is almost done and everything is going as planned on this side. There are some issues that need to be addressed, since adding Radeon support in CUDA isn’t a big deal - but it’s not enough! We also need to add CUDA support on AMD’s driver level and its being addressed as we speak.
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I dont really think they are getting NV's full support, just some uber 1337 haxorz in there bedroomz doing it!
 
willhub said:
I dont really think they are getting NV's full support, just some uber 1337 haxorz in there bedroomz doing it!
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Maybe not but as the saying goes (enemy of your enemy is your friend) and if nvidia can get ati on board for when and if they go up against intel and havok that will help them.
But if ati/amd are in both camps then good for them
 
Sounds like star trek when the borg where cooperating with starfleet to get a path through borg space.

ATi are going to cooperating with NV whilst NV go into Intel and asimilate them, we'll be seeing NV9800 CPU's next. NV Inside C2D.
 
queamin said:
Maybe not but as the saying goes (enemy of your enemy is your friend) and if nvidia can get ati on board for when and if they go up against intel and havok that will help them.
But if ati/amd are in both camps then good for them
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The fact is nVidia are poviding full supports but surprisingly, ATI are not so keen on such 'benefits'.

Simply because ATI(AMD) don't want to compromise with nVidia on physics. They are fearing that the core technology (on physics) being controlled by nVidia once they use nVidia's physics codings. They need to build something truely belong to themselves.
 
OCOCOC said:
The fact is nVidia are poviding full supports but surprisingly, ATI are not so keen on such 'benefits'.

Simply because ATI(AMD) don't want to compromise with nVidia on physics. They are fearing that the core technology (on physics) being controlled by nVidia once they use nVidia's physics codings. They need to build something truely belong to themselves.
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It could be partly to do with that, but I heard they'd acquired a license to support Havok from Intel, would be a shame to lose that investment if they supported PhysX officially and PhysX won the physics war... On the other hand, I can see where NVIDIA are going with it, the more support they can get for PhysX, the better and in the long run, it's better for us if there's one global standard or if both Havok and PhysX are supported on both sides because then there's no need to worry about support when buying a new part.
 
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