Physx Cards Waste of Money

Depends, what games do you play and do they support the PhysX card? Only a few games support it and it does add some great effects.

GRAW2 and UT3 support Ageia PhysX cards

Its pretty limited for now(and also seems to include the games that use ageia's software physx)....but thats what happens when you try to make a product just to have ATI and Nvidia claim they have one on the way, then years later still nothing(i remember all the talk of using an old graphics card for a PPU)....

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

I'd consider buying one if they'd release a PCI-e version. I mean, really!

PhysX is a dead end.

Ageia will likely be bought by either nVidia or AMD, supposedly they have already been sold, but no mention of to whom that I saw last time I checked.

Since intel bought Havoc and killed all VPU-acceleraed physics hopes, then it's likely that one of the other players will buy Ageia to ensure that not all games go Havoc only.

Like Shadow says PCIe 1X was not a limitation, even Ageia said they didn't need one as PCI was already powerful enough.

Overall it's a dead end, if not because of ATi and nV's actions, definitely after intel's purchase of Havoc.