DWILLWY Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 i was looking at cards on newegg and found this, i rember seeing one from asus a few months ago and was wondering how much they would realy add to a system Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMeeD Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 Not many games take advantage of it, thats my biggest thought on why its not doing well. From what I hear it doesnt help too much (dont take my word of it) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comp Dude2 Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 I think it is something reserved for ultimate gaming machines, if it were my comp i would put the $200 towards a better cpu/gpu because this card basically takes stress off those parts. Great if you have the best cpu/gpu and still want more but in a game which doesn't support them they are useless whereas a better cpu would still be better. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWILLWY Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 ok that answers all my questions thanks a lot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crow47 Posted January 11, 2007 Posted January 11, 2007 Don't get one. The geforce 8800 has one built in. Probably a sign of things to come. And besides, very few games take advantage of it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dling Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 heres what toms h.w. had to say about it , http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/19/is_..._physx_failing/ i read this when it was new ,I dont think they were very impressed. hope this helps. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 It was a device that had great potential, and before the dual CPU/GPU time we live in now, may have been somethign more developers would have coded for and taken advantage of. Personalyl I think it's a great device, that is when a game supports it well, too bad there are next to zero games that actually use the thing . Word is the next UT offering will use it, that may make it worth a purchase IF ATI/nVidia dont come up with a better alternative or if develpoers get to USING these extra CPU cores for something in game... In other words, I say dont waste the $200, later down the road you may want to if it woudl actually benifit you, but chances are it will never be worth the $200 pricetag, but who's to say it wont drop in price. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
romeo55 Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 IMO it isn't worth it, and the G80 and R600 will NOT have a physx proccessing built in.... ati and nvidias thinking atm that you can add a semi cheap vid card onto a 3rd PCI-E slot (or 2nd if not in sli) and use that chepo card for physx proccessing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted January 12, 2007 Posted January 12, 2007 ... if develpoers get to USING these extra CPU cores for something in game... yeah lol... you'd think some games using the 2nd core for something would have come out by now IMO it isn't worth it, and the G80 and R600 will NOT have a physx proccessing built in.... afaik, they don't have dedicated physics processors on them, but can be programmed using advanced pixel shader code to handle the physics (not PhysX) processing... the 8800 already has a smoke tech demo that shows the physics processing in action (fluid dynamics)... it takes advantage of the massive processing power of the 8800 card rather than using a separate processing source like a PhysX card, or 3rd graphics card Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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