What's a PhsyX card???

What's a PhsyX card???advise please?

thanks very much for the info!! he he im happy we have a lot of smart persons to ask on how to wast our money in the right way!hehehe

But that dosent mean that Youtube isnt full of idiots showing off their 'PhysX rigs', or that they and their friends will debate u over how usefull the PhysX card is saying stuff like "my's games runs faster with the physx card(s)" and the ever popular "when the gpu first came out ppl thought it was useless aswell".
I wish they were dead, much like Christians.

I own one, and at the moment it's basically useless aside from Cell Factor, which should NOT warrant the purchase of this card. Maybe when UT3 comes out it'll be worthwhile as Epic has said many times they plan on supporting the card, but you should really wait until the game is available to make the decision.

Don't bring up religion into a public forum you fucking moron.

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As a christian and a family guy enthusiast, i found that halarious. Don't report him

But that dosent mean that Youtube isnt full of idiots showing off their 'PhysX rigs', or that they and their friends will debate u over how usefull the PhysX card is saying stuff like "my's games runs faster with the physx card(s)" and the ever popular "when the gpu first came out ppl thought it was useless aswell".
I wish they were dead, much like Christians.

1stly: i am sorry to say this and look like a idiot, u f**king stanistic f**king jew, your going to hell dont bring religion into things idiot.

2ndly: if you have the cash to waste then get it.
exactly what i said

3rdly: It probebly can be usefull if they made the games to support it.

Calling him a "f**king stanistic f**king jew" leads me to doubt that you have any right to judge when you yourself have just insulted an entire religion in much the same way he did. You are just as bad.

The forums, believe it or not, ARENT about flaming people. Don't get on my back because someone else took things too far. This is about a PHYSICS CARD, not about bashing religion(s). So yes, I will report anybody who doesn't abide by the forum rules, I'm sick of people who do nothing but flame and instigate personal attacks on other forum members. Anybody disagree with me on this?

As the first 2 replies stated, a waste of money. Croc said it was ahead of its time, but relative to CPU capability, it was behind. As THG review of the Ageia PhsyX Cell Factor demo shows here

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/0 [...] page3.html

the card is NOT required by the game itself, but rather, administratively...in short, a gimmick to sell unneeded hardware.

With todays multicore CPUs, an extra processing unit on a PCI slot is as useful as teats on a bull.

The below results illustrate tests of ageia phsyX. The tests show performance with and without the phsyX card. You can see theres not a lot of improvement. More importantly to gaming, where particle physics are concerned, is the fact that the tests are using reasonable GPUs but some older, less capable system components, i.e DDR400 and a single core CPU:

Processor(s) AMD Athlon 64 FX-60
2.6 GHz, 1.0 GHz HTT Link, 1MB L2 cache
Platform Asus AN832-SLI Premium
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI, BIOS version 1205
RAM Corsair CMX1024-4400Pro
2x 1024 MB @ DDR400 (CL3.0-4-4-8)
Hard Drive Western Digital Raptor, WD1500ADFD
150 GB, 10,000 RPM 16 MB cache, SATA150
Networking On-Board nForce4 Gigabit Ethernet
Graphics Cards XFX GeForce 7950GX2,1 GB GDDR3
570 MHz Core clock
700 MHz Memory clock (1.4 GHz DDR)

PNY GeForce 7900 GTX, 512 MB GDDR3
675 MHz Core clock
820 MHz Memory clock (1.64 GHz DDR)

Connect3D Radeon X1900XTX, 512 MB GDDR3
650 MHz Core clock
775 MHz Memory clock (1.55 GHz DDR)

EVGA GeForce 6800GS CO SE, 256 MB GDDR3
450 MHz Core clock
525 MHz Memory clock (1.05 GHz DDR)

ATI Radeon X1900XTX, 256 MB GDDR3
520 MHz Core clock
540 MHz Memory clock (1.08 GHz DDR)



See the full article here: Is Ageia's PhysX Failing?

I personally want ageia to take off, people have a general problem with it because at the moment all it is is eye candy. But after drooling over the videos and screenshots for crysis, you stop looking at what can be manipulated and start to focus on what can't. the games not even out yet and the destructable buildings already look likle they don't have enough break points in them, just because your attention is fixed soo heavily on them.
Graphics in the next few years will heavily rely on manipulation for both effects physics and gameplay physics, a drop in card will be a nice add to your puter to help it tick along grinding through this shit.
The problem you people have with add in cards is that they costs money, and all your skint asses can't afford it.

The problem is the power of CPU's is increasing exponentially (Intel are already testing 64 cores and 8 cores protoypes are out).

In a world where CPU power is increasing at 30% every few months, there's little call for a seperate physics card as a new CPU is both more powerful and often cheaper, and has the benefits of speeding up everything else on the pc as well.

Any doubts about the need for a Physics card are well and truly thrown in the bin (along with the card?) when you look at the Alan Wake Tornado demo. The physics issues are simply solved on a quad core processor by giving the tornado and entire CPU core to itself specifically to calculate the tornados physics:

Video: http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=15409

Maybe i missed something, but while Nvidia and AMD have both been boasting about their Physics capabilities and despite the presence of the third PCIe slot, i have yet to see physics calculations on GPU basis for the consumer.

I didn't say the demo was run on a single core.

I said the tornados physics had an entire core to themselves with the rest of the game running on the ohter cores. That is most likely the way forwards.

As to the quad core question, Intel is dropping prices next month and quads start at $170 if I remember correctly.

The OP should really consider using Google for questions like this.