It's PC gaming. The excitement of new technology, and the ability o brag or view the best of the best settings in games etc. 300$ is'nt bad for new tech. I can barely touch/push the PPU limits vs the rendering power of a 7800 gtx on my box. It's pretty easy to say this card will scale for a year or so. Not to mention…
[ QUOTE ] As far as on-card physics go I think NVidia/Havok's solution is a little cleaner than Ageia's approach. Basically you have two cards in SLI, if you have heavy physics one card is dedicated to simulating it, otherwise you can just crank up the graphics. [/ QUOTE ] That, and with the advent of nVidia's quad sli,…
[ QUOTE ] @acc: We can also run physics on our cpus, but that doesn't make the idea of a physics card useless. Running physics on your video card will slow them down. And it's not just pretending they're for specific things. As far as I know those risk processors have a specialised instruction set and are even on slower…