BFG ... The next BIG thing ?

[Alexrose1uk]

lol...for people with too much cash its all about the willy waving!

 

[n3x]

LoL, so if paying £400+ for a graphics card aint bad enough for some ppl, they now have to pay an extra £200 on top of that for these.

u dont have to buy anything u dont want to from what i understand the code will be written and users have the option to run with just the software (obviously without all the bells and whistles) or with the hardware (lots of nice objects flying around i guess).

If i had loadsa money id love to get my hands on one of these to try out and it looks like the games developers are keen to give it a go aswell! the unreal 3 engine looks awesome btw!

 

[lordedmond]

there was a similer thing many years ago , power VR or something, it was a pci add on card with no out put cons

i think it worked through the pci bus and your gfx have the just reinvented the wheel ?

 

[jklc]

I'd consider getting one if it increased performance by a big chunk with major support in games, but at the moment it seems like you're only paying to see stuff like water dripping realistically.

 

[BubbySoup]

there was a similer thing many years ago , power VR or something, it was a pci add on card with no out put cons

i think it worked through the pci bus and your gfx have the just reinvented the wheel ?

Power VR was a 3D accelerator card, similar to the 3DFX voodoo series, back in the days when you had to have one graphics card for all your usual 2D work and then one to do your whizzy 3D stuff.

It had superior tech to the 3dfx series (no pass through cable, tile based rendering) but never really caught on due to 3DFX's superior marketing - that and it needed a hell of a lot more CPU grunt to achieve its results than was readily available back then.

 

[Meatball]

LoL, so if paying £400+ for a graphics card aint bad enough for some ppl, they now have to pay an extra £200 on top of that for these.

No ones forcing you to buy it? I think they are a great idea!

 

[turtle3]

Ive had my eye on these cards for ages, Theres gonna be a big review in next months pc format, I think in time all gpu cards will have a ppu incorporated losing the need for an extra pci slot

 

[Cyber-Mav]

heh, this could prolong the use of my agp system, or at least reduce the cpu bottleneck.

 

[smids]

I read today, when looking for some info on my X1800XT, that apparently you can just install the API or something and for multi-core users, this will give an emulated version where calculations get passed off to the second core and act much like the PhysX card (but obviously not quite as good). I don't see the need for it if this is the case personally and I'm sure dual 2.8ghz of power is not going to be overwhelmed by calculations .

 

[maddad68]

I read today, when looking for some info on my X1800XT, that apparently you can just install the API or something and for multi-core users, this will give an emulated version where calculations get passed off to the second core and act much like the PhysX card (but obviously not quite as good). I don't see the need for it if this is the case personally and I'm sure dual 2.8ghz of power is not going to be overwhelmed by calculations .

Hi smid's ... when are you gonna sort out my temps and volt's mate ... my PC is sweating its nutt's off here

 

[smids]

Hi smid's ... when are you gonna sort out my temps and volt's mate ... my PC is sweating its nutt's off here

Drop me a mail . I hope you haven't been abusing it without guidance . Also, pop a thread up in the O/C and Cooling section, that way you can collate informations from many sources.

So, with UT2007 supporting this, does anyone know when it is released, both the card and the game because wasn't it supposed to be March i.e. now?

 

[Things change I've changed]

Hi m8

Pricing is to be confirmed, expect it to be anywhere between £130 - £190 +VAT area. In my view for what it does and the effect it has its great value and when games are properly written to support it things will be on a new level and we shall be adding them to our Ultima Extreme line of systems.

Sweet, i've been following the PhysX card project for ages, tbh in the beginning I thought they'd never even make it to production, glad they have tho, I wonder what this means for sli and cross fire, b-cos if these things give a real performance boost it would make a great/cheaper alternative to buying a secound gpu.

 

[maddad68]

Cheers smid's


From the vids i have seen on the AGEIA site it looks AWSOME , I must say it looks very early on in the development stage's but oh my lord it will totaly change the way we play games .

Have a look at the car being coverd in green gloop ... then imagin the green in RED .. and then think blood

 

[LoadsaMoney]

No ones forcing you to buy it? I think they are a great idea!

Yeah i know, its just like top end gfx cards though, if you want to play games maxed out in high resolutions with plenty AA/AF then your going to buy one, as thats how you want to play games, your still not getting forced, its how you want to play them, these cards are the same, if you want all that, and not suffer frame rate loss by all these fancy physics then your going to get one, if you don't mind the frame-rate suffering you won't, but ppl will get them anyway, as they wont want the frame-rates suffering, even though you aint forced to get them.