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Anyone own a physics card yet?
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I just found out that there are actually physics cards on the market right now. This surprised me, I figured they were one of those things you see in Popular Science that might happen in a few years, but probably won't.

A link provided in the launcher for city of villians directed me to the website of the  AGEIA "PhysX" physics processor unit.

I don't know what to think of this, as of yet. :sherlock:


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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Konnrade]
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It's a cool idea, but the Havok engine is adding support for physics acceleration on the GPU without additional hardware. Unless Ageia cuts prices by 75% and gets a ton of developers on board I'm afraid they're going to be an also-ran.

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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Konnrade]
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I just read a review of one in Computer Gaming Monthly and the jist of the article said it was best compared to a combination of platypus piss and cricket crap. New, rare and exotic, but ultimately you realize that you were just fed excrement.


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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: HagbardCeline]
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the videos are pretty cool... but who knows how well it will be implemented

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=PhysX&search_type=search_videos


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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: SgtBob]
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Yeah what they don't mention is you can run the demos with all the physics effects enabled, without a physics card, and only lose a couple FPS. I'm sure it'll improve with time but for $350 I'd kind of expect shit to actually fly out of my screen and into my computer room.

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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Ythan]
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i think i read somewhere that the new sli video cards setup, one of them will be able to do physics processing, and the other will do the graphics. handy thing to have even if you dont want it


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Can the critics still deny that the geometry of matter is directly related to the harmonic interweaving of light itself? There is no substance, in the absolute sense. We live in a reality of un-reality; all is an illusion and the stuff that dreams are made of. Our physical world is nothing more than a resonating ball of light and shade."

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Ythan]
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So thus far this seems to be just a novelty, then?

I suppose it will be a while before physics cards have an opportunity to become a worthy investment.

It's neat to see new processor units in their infancy, though. I somehow think this might wind up being akin to how the GPU was born, but I was too young at the time to remember that... and my packard bell craputer didn't exactly have internet access.


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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Konnrade]
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Konnrade said:
So thus far this seems to be just a novelty, then?

I suppose it will be a while before physics cards have an opportunity to become a worthy investment.

It's neat to see new processor units in their infancy, though. I somehow think this might wind up being akin to how the GPU was born, but I was too young at the time to remember that... and my packard bell craputer didn't exactly have internet access.


Exactly, just novelty. A few games in the near future will support them. But I can't imagine them out performing an decent SLI set up and a extra graphics card would run about the same price. Very useless at this point. Hardware has always been ahead of software, I can't imagine these things having any worthwhile benefit for a long time.


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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Konnrade]
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wtf is a physics card?

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Re: Anyone own a physics card yet? [Re: Vvellum]
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bi0 said:
wtf is a physics card?


http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?majorcatid=101&minorcatid=1207

BAM!


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