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Ageia can use more than one card

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Doubly, triple, quad your physics?

By Fuad Abazovic: Monday 16 October 2006, 09:52

A SHARP-EYED reader spotted that the new Ageia driver mentions the use of multiple Physx cards.

You can go at Ageia site and download the new driver here.

A thingy called Hardware Scene Manager (HSM) now uses compartments, allowing the use of multiple Physx cards in the future. It seems we are at the dawn of multiple Ageia cards to boost your physics performance.

The company has some really cool demos that it showed in New York. These includes 'deformable' objects. This new feature can calculate how much a first barrel deforms a second one on impact. Things start to look much better and more realistical than ever before, apparently.

As for PCIe Ageia cards, we told you about it a year and a half ago in one of the first articles on Physx ever, here. µ
 
Yawn @ The Inquirer, but oh goodie you can spend twice as much on an already overexpensive gimmick and still get far too little back out of your games to justify the cost! :D
 
Imo don't buy one now. They are still under-developed. Wait another few months or something and see whats going down with them. Paying what you are gonna pay for just a card that adds some more eye candy, not a lot from looking at the reviews. There has also been a lot of criticism over them, so I suggest you wait a while. If you really want it and have the money to throw away then so be it. I'd say your better spending it on RAM, or giving it to me ;)
 
Hmmmmm.

Quadcore processer with a quad SLI setup, with a add in sound card + dual physx cards.
Its getting kinda ridiculus now....
 
Here's my future rig:

Geforce 8800GTX £450
Geforce 8800GTX £450
BFG Tech AGEIA PhysX £187
BFG Tech AGEIA PhysX £187
Maze 4 * 4 = £136
Quad core QX6700 = £800
Total = £2210

Bargain :D
 
kchakkar said:
Maybe you need two to make it work properly. lol :D
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don't be silly, it takes 4 to work properly.

its an underpowered solution to physics processing. only with 4 cards will it actually do anything useful.
 
lol everyone is sooo negative towards Ageia and its new technology, anyone would think that £187 is actually a lot of money??

How much did you spend on that SLI setup just before ATi walked all over its parade :p

I hope it really kicks off and all the neh sayers have to eat all their own words :rolleyes:

******grabs a lawn chair and a long island iced tea sits back and prepares for the backlash :D
 
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Elrein said:
lol everyone is sooo negative towards Ageia and its new technology, anyone would think that £187 is actually a lot of money??

How much did you spend on that SLI setup just before ATi walked all over its parade :p
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£187 is a lot of money, considering very few games actually use it. Its almost the same as putting £187 cash in your PC case and wondering why nothing's improved. The games that DO use it, just add extra debris.

SLI is the same price as it has always been - cheaper than ATI ;) The SLI functionality is integrated directly into the GPU so you just needed to high-end graphics cards. Since those very same cards had to compete with single-card solutions they had no price premium. The Crossfire Master cards on the other hand commanded a fair price premium (and still do outside of the X1950). Fortunately the X1950 Pro has integrated the Crossfire functionality into the GPU and gone for an internal connector.
 
The world of high end PC gaming rigs just gets even more pathetic,expensive and absurd. Ageia are trying to sell more duff units to more muppets before they sink and you know what they will sell a few because as the saying goes ....."There is one born every minute".
 
kchakkar said:
Here's my future rig:

Geforce 8800GTX £450
Geforce 8800GTX £450
BFG Tech AGEIA PhysX £187
BFG Tech AGEIA PhysX £187
Maze 4 * 4 = £136
Quad core QX6700 = £800
Motherboard = £170
4gb DRR2 1066mhz = £600
Lian Li S80B = £175
30 inch Dell = £1200
Raptor K1 Keyboard = £75
G7 Carbon mouse = £60
1000w Galaxy PSU = £235
Total = £4725

Bargain :D
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;)
 
Even I don’t see the point of 2 cards. I love my first card and it does have a big impact by making games better. But I don’t see a 2nd card doing anything useful.

I just got a new PPU game BOS: Blood of Sahara but there is nothing that needs 2 PPU's in it.




“Ageia cannot utilize one card properly, so whats the point of any more ?”
You know that’s not true anymore, why do people still spread lies like this?

There are games that get a large speed boost and new effects from the PPU. Look at BOS, COH or games like Joint Task Force.





“The games that DO use it, just add extra debris.”
That’s no longer correct we get far more then just debris.
 
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Elrein said:
anyone would think that £187 is actually a lot of money??
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Well seeing as for £187 you can easily buy a perfectly decent graphics card that can pretty much handle anything that any normal person would want to throw at it, then I would consider £187 for something that adds a few bells and whistles to be a LOT of money!!

Sure if you're the sort of person that doesn't mind blowing £600+ on a graphics setup, then an extra £187 probably seems quite reasonable. :rolleyes:
 
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