PhysX launched today.

fini · 22 Mar 2006 at 20:58

You can buy them as of today - a you want to drop hints on competitors , Mods may drop your account is selling pc's with these cards in them (I think the delivery/build time's about 1 1/2 weeks)

fini

Cyber-Mav · 22 Mar 2006 at 21:47

what format are they? pci-e or regular pci? and will they work in my aging pc?

mc_bob · 22 Mar 2006 at 21:51

When and Where will we be able to get them?

MC_Bob

Jimbo Mahoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 21:53

mc_bob said:
When and Where will we be able to get them?

MC_Bob

Only @ OcUK

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:16

Get one of these at about £200+ to go with your £500 7900GTX, £700+ just for your graphics, as i say **** that.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:18

LoadsaMoney said:
Get one of these at about £200+ to go with your £500 7900GTX, £700+ just for your graphics, as i say **** that.

since when has the PPU had anything to do with graphics? it is a dedicated processing unit to take load off the CPU so it is connected more to the cpu than the GPU

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:25

Odd i thought these cards did all the physx so that you could still maintain high frames on yer maxed out graphics, now if your gona start to get a drop in frames on your £500 card because you can't handle the phsyx as well, then your going to get one, wether its connected to the CPU/GPU, your gona buy one as you dont want your frames to suffer.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:28

LoadsaMoney said:
Odd i thought these cards did all the physx so that you could still maintain high frames on yer maxed out graphics, now if your gona start to get a drop in frames on your £500 card because you can't handle the phsyx as well, then your going to get one.

from where im seeing it it helps fps by taking load off of the CPU which allows for AI and phisics to be calculated faster thus increasing overall performance and gaining a few FPS.

EDIT: also allows for much more complicated phisics engines to be developed

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:32

Yes it helps fps, but if you have a x1900/GTX and your frame rates are gona suffer, your gona get one as i said, you need the graphics card as well.

Theres some ppl already out there with the £500 GTX's, they are going to get these so their frame-rares don't suffer, and if they are gona be £200+, to me that makes £700+

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:33

LoadsaMoney said:
Yes it helps fps, but if you have a x1900/GTX and your frame rates are gona suffer, your gona get one as i said, you need the graphics card as well.

you need a cpu aswell

sunlitsix · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:33

NightSt@lk3r said:
from where im seeing it it helps fps by taking load off of the CPU which allows for AI and phisics to be calculated faster thus increasing overall performance and gaining a few FPS.

EDIT: also allows for much more complicated phisics engines to be developed

only on games which are designed with the PhysX card in mind though

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:34

Yes i know you need a cpu.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:35

sunlitsix said:
only on games which are designed with the PhysX card in mind though

and those are the games that will have the much more advanced phisics engine's.

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:36

You can't tell me though, that no one is going to have a top end card, and one of these.

We are talking £700+ as theres loads of ppl out there with x1900's, 7900 GTX's, you can't tell me not one single person form those would not get one of these cards to help maintain their high frame rates, if not then its an absolute waste of time, should not have been developed as no one wants it.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:38

LoadsaMoney said:
You can't tell me though, that no one is going to have a top end card, and one of these.

why not? you buy a soundcard to get better quality sound and take load of the CPU, with this you get much better phisics and take load off the cpu.

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:39

Yes and you have your top end card so you can have your graphics maxed out AA/AF at high frame rates, you need the graphics card as well, and they do go up to £500+.

sunlitsix · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:40

well at the moment i cant see anyone with a high-end card buying one of these to go with it.
when there are more games that support and use the PhysX card then i don't see why not.

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:41

Yeah its not worth buying yet, i can't exactly see a flood of games coming whre they will help, but once they do come.

NightSt@lk3r · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:42

sunlitsix said:
well at the moment i cant see anyone with a high-end card buying one of these to go with it.
when there are more games that support and use the PhysX card then i don't see why not.

im not telling you to go buy it, your all giving reasons why you wont buy it so im giving some reasons why someone might buy it.
I personally will probably never get one.

EDIT: here is a support list of games http://physx.ageia.com/titles.html

LoadsaMoney · 22 Mar 2006 at 22:45

Yeah theres gona be loads of ppl buying em to go with their £500 cards when they are worth buying, were up to £500 now for a graphics card, they ain't miraculously going to start to go down in price from now on, i can't see the G80 only coming out at about £200, or the R600.