Ageia PhysX

[jonny4288]

WAs wonderign when the availability on these cards will be?

Hmm also wonder how much :x

there is a press release on the ageia website that they have launched with immediate availability

Thanks,

[jonny4288]

any info on this at all ?

[DavidM]

No one about from purchasing at the mo but we'll see if we can get some info later for you

[kempez]

Oooohh yeah /me wants one.

/me wants one from SCAN

[Lee H]

After liasing with my manager who's been dealing with the Ageia physx chips we anticipate the cards to be freely available in May

[DavidM]

Interesting!

(I'd be interested to know if any graphics, modelling or video software could use this?)

[kempez]

After liasing with my manager who's been dealing with the Ageia physx chips we anticipate the cards to be freely available in May

Sweet. Any ideas on pricing?

[Lee H]

Sweet. Any ideas on pricing?

Not as yet I'm afraid.

[piranha]

The new UT is supposed to be able to use it.

[jonny4288]

physx.ageia.com list of titles supporting, and list of developers developing

will most likely be 200-300 but thats just a ball park figure

[nvening]

Alienware are giving an upgrade option at just over £200, so i agree with jonny.

[ExceededGoku]

lol, i said to my parents I wasn't going to get anymore hardware stuff... this is another reason for me to splash out lol

[Tobeman]

After liasing with my manager who's been dealing with the Ageia physx chips we anticipate the cards to be freely available in May

Whats that? The cards are available for free?

[mmmalas]

nvidia SLI, and crossfire cards should be able to do physics too,

the only problem is why do you want to spend 400 pounds on a gfx that does physics instead of buying agea one.

not to forget heat/noise/power consumption high end gfx will add to your system

[teachmech]

Looking interesting but I'll wait and see if any titles I'm intrerested in will support it first.

[Lee H]

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.