physX card

1800 · Post by **1800** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:45 am

been doing research on these. from what i can tell, the card pretty much just helps carry the load from your CPU and GPU. my question is this. if all it does is help the overall load from your processors, wouldnt it just be easier to buy a better video card with more RAM? other than that what purpose does it serve? if i run SLI...two cards at 768, would a physX card even be worth installing? if i run one card at that rate would it be worth buying??? input from people who know more about this than me would be helpful...TY

Ortega · Post by **Ortega** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:34 am

I dont think the card works if you go SLI. I think it takes a VGA slot. Not sure did the reading on it about 4 months ago. Its been talking about though before.

1800 · Post by **1800** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:50 am

right now the card is sold as pci..but they have plans to make it pci-e

Quester115 · Post by **Quester115** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:02 am

wait a few months before investing in one of these as programers learn to tap multicore processors (nehalem supports up to 8

) this may all be a passing idea, or they might become more powerful and be developed for pci-e and with the next nVidia chipset rumored to have 3 full speed pci-e a 6-8 months wait may be very well worth it

1800 · Post by **1800** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 1:06 pm

its not that expensive now, the question was more based on if the card actually DOES anything more than just assist the GPU and CPU. buying a graphics card with more ram does that anyway. $150.00 is not expensive. $550.00 is. im wondering more along the lines of if the damn thing does anything extra any more than just assisting. if it doesnt, then i dont see why i shouldnt run two video cards at 768. it may be more expensive, but in theory i will get better results with those two cards instead of one 768 and one physx card.

Jet$ · Post by **Jet$** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 11:02 pm

has anyone seen any games that take any advantage of the physx card.

NIR_Rimc · Post by **NIR_Rimc** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 12:22 am

Jet$ wrote:has anyone seen any games that take any advantage of the physx card.

UT3 with a PhysX card, scroll down for the video. (SNEAK PEEK)

http://www.ageia.com/physx/ut3.html

Archangel · Post by **Archangel** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:50 am

If your going to run a physics card, you still need a top vid card too in order to run the game at extreme high detail. So, save up that $650+ so you can turn up the eyecandy.

hwsb · Post by **hwsb** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:05 am

plus, wasn't there some speculation as to the second sli connector on the 8800gtx's possibility of bridging to some sort of physics solution, either from nvidia or a third party? haven't heard much of that lately...

Ortega · Post by **Ortega** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 1:20 pm

That is what I was thinking. The SLi issue. Not sure if that was a rumor of just a misread on my art. I think they cost like $100 or so. but you Arch is right you graphics card has to up to par. I know it helps the CPU and Graphics card out.

UT3 is the one of the big games it works with that is coming out. There is another game also. Can't remember. This was talked about and at that time it wasn't worth it. I think Questar asked about it. I still think you should wait though. M.O.