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Alex The P C Gamer

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02-05-2008 at 09:49:32 PM

From a business perspective, purchasing Ageia or partnering with them made sense but was risky. From an engineering perspective, integrating a physics PPU with a GPU made sense once again. From a customer's perspective, having to buy a videocard instead of two made even more sense.

Now that the logistics have been reviewed, Nvidia made the first move and here we are looking at Nvidia and Ageia joining forces.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1202161567170.html

Cheers,

Alex

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02-05-2008 at 11:09:27 PM

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Can't wait! this has so much potential!

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02-06-2008 at 02:51:25 PM

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and the fact that they are hooked up with Sony already is great news for the gamers,they have a mod for UT3 that is almost ready I think

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