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Josh
Joined: 01 Feb 2004
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Location: Across America
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: Physics Cards |
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What do they do?
How do they work?
Is it worth the money? |
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Demonic Spoon
Joined: 20 Sep 2004
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Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| from what I've heard (although my experience in the matter is very limited), so few games actually use the technology that it's not worth it. |
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Venom
Joined: 06 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/07/19/is_ageias_physx_failing/index.html
I don't see this as a good investment unless you don't care about throwing down $100+ for very little results. |
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JoeBen81
Joined: 13 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkGFuQ0_P0&mode=related&search=
Here is a game using it. |
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thefranzkafkafront
Joined: 24 Jul 2005
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Location: Edinburgh University.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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JoeBen81 wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbkGFuQ0_P0&mode=related&search=
Here is a game using it.
Wow gimicky. |
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Venom
Joined: 06 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121015R
$200
I believe devs will be hard pressed to ask people to drop an additional $200 for a PC for gaming purposes on top of the cost of the rest of the PC parts, especially high end new video cards/CPUs. The cheapest 8800 listed on Nvidia's site is $490... so just for these two peices you've already spent nearly $700. |
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Melcar
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Stuck between inmaturity and getting a job
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| Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Not really worth it. Besides, CPUs will always be more practical (but not as effective) specially now that we have multicores. AMD (ATI) and nvidia will also be providing PPU solutions with their dual card setups (soon to be triple card setups as I have heard). |
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bob.appleyard
Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Location: Manchestar, innit
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Dedicated physics?!?
Waste of time. |
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