The Physx

I was just looking at all of the games that are going to be using the physx and I asked myself whether I wanted to buy it. I'm hoping with this post you can help me make that decision. So please do me a favor by saying anything that you think, feel, or know about the physx so I can get some feedback on it.

Im gana get one sooner or later, but so far that CellFactor demo has worked great on my PC so i really see no need

PhysX cards are, in my opinioin, really not worth buying. Save your £200 and buy some more RAM or better graphics cards or something.
From what I've read in PCZone and around the internet the card doesn't actually give you much more, and just creates more for your graphics card to render (ie particles and chunks of ground from the ground in GRAW).

Besides, DX10 isn't far away and it's going to basically be able to do what the PhysX card does for free. Apparently, it'll be able to take advantage of the unused power of your graphics card and use it to process physics. How successful this is or even whether it's entirely true, I'm not sure, but my advice would be a PhysX card just really isn't worth the small fortune that retailers are asking for it.

Of course, if you're sickeningly rich and already have an insane rig and just want something extra to boast about, why not?

hi,
Like someone said before rather buy ram or a very good cpu as a physix card does only support the cpu and if the cpu is powerfull enough u do not actually need one. Id recommend to buy ram and cpu as this hardware is more develpoed and more efficient.
And till now there is no need for any games to have a physix card as most games arent programmend to use the physix card anyway.

Hope this helps u a bit. :thumbup:

Sweet! Now instead of spending 300$ on a card that never has to be upgraded through hardware...
We should buy a 3rd video card and a new motherboard and a new CPU.

From what I`ve read it sounds like the communication delay between the physics card and the cpu causes a stutter before the physics so calculated implement onscreen. We might want to hold off a bit for either more thorough trials of the card (only 2 games were featured in the reviews I beheld) or for advanced versions of the technology.

There have been plenty of benchmarks that show the Physx card actually lowers FPS,I't still a litlle early to say if the PPU will actually stick around.Ati is also working on something similar where they will be using 3 video cards on newer crossfire systems.2 Video cards for crossfire(SLI) and one for physics.How that will work out only time will tell.

Originally posted by AKADeadly@Aug 4 2006, 01:59 AM
Im gana get one sooner or later, but so far that CellFactor demo has worked great on my PC so i really see no need

where did you download that cellfactor demo?

Originally posted by jack carver+Sep 12 2006, 07:21 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jack carver @ Sep 12 2006, 07:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--AKADeadly@Aug 4 2006, 01:59 AM
Im gana get one sooner or later, but so far that CellFactor demo has worked great on my PC so i really see no need

where did you download that cellfactor demo? [/b][/quote]
You can download CellFactor:Combat Training here for free

Originally posted by tony2153+Sep 12 2006, 06:56 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (tony2153 @ Sep 12 2006, 06:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>

where did you download that cellfactor demo?

You can download CellFactor:Combat Training here for free [/b][/quote]
You can also download it here for free, with no info required and probably faster speeds!