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more add in cards?

It is getting silly how many slots and cards we end up needing at this rate.they should get together and do one that does physic's and A.I.unless ATI and nvidia start looking into it like the physic side of games.


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Personally I think it is a genius idea, all the old add-in cards such as soundcards, USB, firewire, network etc are now onboard so what else are you going to use all these PCI slots for other than pointless add-in cards? ;)

Ok, more realistically I think it is a dumb idea because you normally have to rely on the games manufacturers to code specifically so that this particular feature(AI or PPU) is "outsourced" to the hardware solution rather than calculated by the CPU. They aren't likely to code for it unless there is a reasonable demand and there will never be enough demand without games that support it so there is almost a catch 22 situation.
 
only recently however has the ball changed

Even before the AMD takeover / partnership ATI where talking about a lower powered GPU doing PPU activities, but now of course one company has the ability to do mobo & chipset / cpu / gpu

Now obviously nVidia have been able to do the majority of this by themselves for years - but without the capacity of configuring/ setting up the cpu exactly how it wishes

Also remember that AMD's recent 4x4 initative which I believe is mainly geared for the likes of us (after all they are going to have to come up with a new chipset anyway, maybe or maybe not cpu's also) ...........

The last bit is all hypothetical, but its certainly possible that AMD now has the power literally to really push a lot of things together.
 
I was waiting for this to happen. All we need now is the gameplay card, which hopefully makes games actually fun to play!!
 
FrankJH said:
We all have a wait for two cores to be fully utilised, so quads are completely pointelss right now (for general users and even "just" most of us gamers) but it really depends on the other players in the hardware and software developers
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I think stuff is either single threaded or multi threaded, to if it can use 2 cores it can also use 4.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Personally I think it is a genius idea, all the old add-in cards such as soundcards, USB, firewire, network etc are now onboard so what else are you going to use all these PCI slots for other than pointless add-in cards? ;)

Ok, more realistically I think it is a dumb idea because you normally have to rely on the games manufacturers to code specifically so that this particular feature(AI or PPU) is "outsourced" to the hardware solution rather than calculated by the CPU. They aren't likely to code for it unless there is a reasonable demand and there will never be enough demand without games that support it so there is almost a catch 22 situation.
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Onboard sound is rubbish.
 
neocon said:
Onboard sound is rubbish.
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In what regard? As a studio quality musician or even pro-level gamer sure, it sucks. As an average gamer/PC user, most people will find it fine.

I do suspect you missed at least some of the sarcasm in the post if that is all you picked out of it. :)
 
Defcon5 said:
I think stuff is either single threaded or multi threaded, to if it can use 2 cores it can also use 4.
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I agree completely, but surely there will be a step in games especially when they can ONLY use certain amount of cores before the next instruction has to run in sync rather than parallel?
 
I wonder what sort of prices these new addin cards are going to cost, I mean the PhysX cards are a good £180, it all adds up!
 
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