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PhysX Accelerators worth it?

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PhysX Accelerators

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_PhysX_Accelerators_594.html

How much do we actually know about these things yet? Ive been out the loop abit of lately and so know very little about them.

But what i basically want to know is are these a 1 of purchase? Like sound cards are.

Are they worth the money?

Are there any compatability issues with these?

Would it be worth me getting 1 of these now knowing in 6-8 months ill likely be upgrading my whole system?

Any other questions i should be asking about these?
 
An extra £218 needed to see PC games in their ful glory? Yup, way to make people go out and buy a console, when is the PC gaming industry going to realise that by adding these "extras" to "enhance" our games they are merely pushing system prices up, and pushing gamers away.
 
buy a core xbox instead :) or a shiny new monitor, a far better way to spend ** cash for 200 quid u can get a beefy gfx card/processor.
 
Yeah just think an extra £218 on top of your £500 GTX, and thats £218 just for the 128mb version, so add some more £££££'s for the 256'er which is coming, and if your going SLi, well that will be over £1200 please just for your 2x graphics cards plus your PhysX :D
 
its not just the expensive hardware just to play these games.

but the games arent worth the hundreds of £s that get ploughed into our computers just to play.

regarding this ageia thing i think its a pathetic rip off, no games that really utilise the technology, until they make games a lot better then it definitely just pushes people towards a console for games.
 
Why do we need these things anyway?

Aren't multi core processors meant to let the computer do stuff like this i.e. couldn't one core run the main thread of the game while the other does the physics stuff?

I thought we're meant to be getting quad core processors by the end of this year (there's one in the PS3 right?).
 
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