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What are phys x accelerators ?

bbreezeuk said:
are they really worth £200
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Time will tell.....

Our OEM ones are now in stock, shall build a system with one soon and see how they work but there is a lack of games out yet hence why official launch is not until May as thats when a load of games are coming out too. :)
 
They might be when the games are out to that use Physx, such as UT2007 and GR:AW.

But still, the retail version costs only £5 less than my 7900GT! So yes, bit of a rip off at the moment. IMO
 
Yup a right royal rip-off, they are seriously having yer pants down, £220 for the 128mb version, and theres 256mb ones coming, considering graphics cards are up to £500, who on earth is gona buy a graphics card at £500, then £220 on top of that for one of these. :D

You can say ppl wont, but fact is we all know they will, you buy the £500 graphics cards so you can game at high resolutions, maxed details, AA/AF at high frame-rates, now if your frame-rates are going to plummet when you have the likes of debris, explosions, smoke etc... going off all over the shop, then your going to buy these to do all that so you can keep your frame-rates high still, i can't see ppl saying 'right these things are £220, so i need to take that price into consideration, so im gona buy a £100 graphics card, and just game at low resolutions, no AA/AF, mixture of low/medium/high details to get decent frame-rates, and one of these to keep those frame-rates, so instead of spending over £700, im only spending about £350'

Can't see it myself. :D

They are going to be flying out the doors, i bet the pre-orders are raining in to OcUK at this very minute rofl. :D

Im glad i don't game on my PC anymore, as this is an absolute joke now, £700 just on yer graphics, and thats just single card, haha you can **** right off!!!. :D

2x XFX 7900 GTX's at £499.32 each, and a PhysX card at £220, thats over £1200, your having a giraffe big time.
 
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If they're priced in the £50-£80 price bracket it'll definietly take off, but all new games will have to support it, otherwise it would be like buying a Voodoo 1 and all the new games ie Mechwarrior 2 still in software 3D mode. You've (me included at the time!) spent £150 on a 3D card and you want it to do stuff. Also similar to Mpeg-II hardware decoders, they were needed for DVD playerback as the CPU's back then couldn't decode at a smooth framerate (I guess similar to HD content now)
 
Surely by the time games come along that actually need this tech it will all be integrated onto the actual main video card?
 
What are phys x accelerators, a product 4 months ahead of its time with little to no game support and a hefty price tag, by the time any games comes at that will actually use the features of the card there will be a bigger and better one.

Honestly I'm all for being an early adopter but to be honest you're just going to get shafted if you buy one of these.

HEADRAT
 
People buy SLI 7900GTX's so they can run the latest 3dmark, even tho they still only play CS. Chances are they will buy these so they can run whatever demo comes with em to show there pals.

Personally the more people who buy these cards, the more nails in the coffin of PC gaming they are hammering in.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
2x XFX 7900 GTX's at £499.32 each, and a PhysX card at £220, thats over £1200, your having a giraffe big time.
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lol you thought that was bad...wait until we see the prices of these quad sli cards :eek:

Imagine one of them cards being £800. So that's £1600 for two of them, and then one of them Physx 256Mb version for around £350-400 I guess. Holy ****! There goes £2000 for your Quad SLI Physx setup that will be worthless in 18 months. And of course, with all that graphics power you'll want a nice 30" monitor (another £1400) and it goes without saying that you'll probably want an FX60 for another £750 notes. Damn, this is getting silly now :p

So let's see...that's £4100...how would you like to pay? An arm and a leg please!
 
Lanz said:
Personally the more people who buy these cards, the more nails in the coffin of PC gaming they are hammering in.
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I'm with you on that bit there.

With dual core processors and soon to be quad processors, are these physic card going to be useless as hopefully games will take advantage of the extra 3 processors in the one system, which would then mean no need for a physics card also a processor can be used for more then just processing explosions and boxes crashing.
 
is it me or is that product advertised like in current games you can turn on and off advanced physics that cripples your cpu and graphics card?

Id buy one for £50 i think if there was some decent games that high life-like physics in. such as proper bullet holes, and a highly advanced 'geo-mod'

I take a shadow processor aswell please!
 
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