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will these cards be pci or pci-x? i have both...but it makes a difference as to how close to the gpu it gets...
No.. as in they'll be offered to systembuilders first and then retail sale shortly afterwardsOriginally Posted by Tobeman
Whats that? The cards are available for free?
Standard PCI to start with, but a PCI-E varient is planned for later, hence my little rant before
Oh well... its a toss-up between Better Audio or Advanced Physics for my rig
Ya see I hate SLi. I despise Crossfire. OK despise is a little strong...but I will get the latest single card solutions and leave it at that.
Basically I don't care whether its PCI or PCi-E
this will work with SLI and crossfire
source theinquirer.net
also it does not need to dedicate the card for the whole time for the physicx
Yep, thought about the problem of there only being 2 PCI slots on a lot of mobos as soon as the Ageia was announced a while back. Which is why I've sorted out my ethernet cabling so that I could bin my wireless NIC.I can see a problem arising now folks
What if you have an SLI setup and an X-FI soundcard installed in the PC ?
99.99% of motherboards for SLI only have 1 free PCI available when using decent cards (due to the cooler sizes blocking other PCI slots) and whats the end-user going to do, select an ageia physx card or an X-Fi soundcard depending on what they want to do?
I can see some highend gamers (like myself) who use SLI get a little miffed at this slight issue.
Won't is be great to have dual core 64 bit CPU; 64 bit OS and a physics co-processor and hardly any app worth mentioning that can utilise any, let alone all, of the extra features
What's the power consumption going to be like? Looks like it has big enough cooling to compare with maybe a graphics card. Should expose all the systems with ungenerous PSU ratings (especially mine).
After liasing with my manager who's been dealing with the Ageia physx chips we anticipate the cards to be freely available in May
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03...r_ageia_physx/
Rrrrreally?
I heard it 1st here
Nice work though SCAN
Looks like some more business will be coming your way
Stick me on the list of pre-orders
I don't even know what it is but I want one!!
Check the following for video's of what it supposedly will doI don't even know what it is but I want one!!
http://physx.ageia.com/footage.html
It's a card designed to take all the advanced physics calculations from the CPU/GPU and enable developers to make games and effects more realistic.
Looks awsome but still I'll wait and see.
Will these cards be able to work with an AGP based system or is it only for those with PCI-E?
These interest me greatly and if compatible could extend the life of my current system by a a couple of years.
Lee said above somewhere that they will come out in btoh PCI and PCI-E variants...
Well I know the first cards are going to be based on the PCI architecture, and with more and more people having systems now with less PCI and more PCI-E it would be a very bizarre business model to only release hardware for older architectures.
and I imagine it would require alot of bandwidth in some situations. I really don't know what to do about this Ageia thing, should I go for this or use ATi's solution (which IMO seems like a much better way for me to go...)?
Im also quite interested in a Physx card, especially since UT2007 will make use of it when it releases. Any idea on RRP if possible?
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