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Exsomnis said:Got one over at AnandTech, too.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2751
Not looking good at all TBH, stupidly lower frames.![]()
I'm with you on this one.Lanz said:*me waits two years for a tiny 2inch, passive cooled pci-e x1 PhysX card that costs £50*
HEADRAT said:Yep observe others waste there money on a product that has come too early to market
HEADRAT
Jimbo Mahoney said:Bit mean matey.![]()
Lanz said:*me waits two years for a tiny 2inch, passive cooled pci-e x1 PhysX card that costs £50*
HangTime said:From 66 to 17fps with an FX-57? Well worth £200 of anyone's money![]()
It's not mean really, its just fact. If people buy into hype and fancy product names then its their own fault when it bites them on the ass. As the old saying goes, a fool and his money are easily parted.Jimbo Mahoney said:Bit mean matey.
I think it's cool for people to be keen and want to try new things, just as long as they are aware it's early days and might not be ready yet. Sucks if they were expecting great things...
/grammar nazi
'there' should be 'their', since the money belongs to them
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It should be "better" by definition, since it will have direct access to the GPU (completely abstracted from any PCI/CPU/PCI-E pathway) but I will be interested to see what standards (if any) ATI and NVidia adopt. I can't see them designing their own physics implementation for the same reason that PhysX is currently floundering - no meaningful developer support.Exsomnis said:I wonder if ATi and Nvidia will do better than Ageia when they enable physics processing with Crossfire/SLi instead of with a dedicated card.I also wonder if this will breed a new generation of fanboy.
The "dual GPU physics fanboys" versus the "dedicated physics card fanboys."
Time will tell, but 2006 is definitely going to be an interesting year in gaming.
I have to agree that using the second GPU in a Crossfire/SLi system seems a much more sensible option. As it currently stands, even without complex physics calculations, Crossfire and SLi need something to do (stupidly high resolutions and lots of AA/AF and post-processing effects) to push both cards, or you are burdened with the CPU limiting overheads which can actually reduce performance in many cases.Durzel said:It should be "better" by definition, since it will have direct access to the GPU (completely abstracted from any PCI/CPU/PCI-E pathway) but I will be interested to see what standards (if any) ATI and NVidia adopt. I can't see them designing their own physics implementation for the same reason that PhysX is currently floundering - no meaningful developer support.
If ATI and/or NVidia buy wholesale into HavocFX on their graphics cards then it could be the nail in the coffin of PhysX before its even got off the ground.![]()
That's because graphics cards don't drop your FPS through the floor though.Energize said:Graphics cards cost more than the ageia physx ppu and yet people still buy them.
Exsomnis said:That's because graphics cards don't drop your FPS through the floor though.![]()