Asus announces board with support for NVIDIA's physics card

zekrahminator · Sep 21, 2006, 08:58 PM

While announcing their newest motherboard, the P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP, Asus accidentally explained the reason behind three PCI Express slots: an NVIDIA physics card. Both ATI and NVIDIA have been working for some time with Havok studios in search of a physics rendering solution. Havok is well known for creating physics engines for games like Half Life 2. The Asus board is designed to run a physics card alongside with Quad-SLI, and was built with the NVIDIA Nforce 590 chipset. The board is compatible with Core 2 Duo and has 4 DIMM slots for DDR2 533/667/800.

Source: The Register

cdawall · Sep 21, 2006, 09:56 PM

oops let that one slip didnt they hehehe what is the point of the phsyx card anyway is it like running a vid card / 3d card on the old school computers?

Azn Tr14dZ · Sep 21, 2006, 10:00 PM

Well, as an example, when you play some Physics supported games, when you blow up buildings, the debris doesn't disappear, it stays there forever.

cdawall · Sep 21, 2006, 10:02 PM

oh ok cool

i want one

infrared · Sep 21, 2006, 10:16 PM

hmm, any ideas what the pcie lane configurations will be? 8/8/4 with all 3 slots occupied?

cdawall · Sep 21, 2006, 10:19 PM

im going w/ user select betwenn 16/4/4 8/8/4 and maybe cause its new 16/16/4 that would be nice but the least likely

Sep 21, 2006, 10:31 PM

and say goodbye to your sound cards >.<

Pretty gay

it needs to at least be able to use a PCI slot

cdawall · Sep 21, 2006, 10:32 PM

the onboard nvidia sound performes well enough i mean which would you reather have uber graphics or a 7.1 soundcard?

zekrahminator · Sep 21, 2006, 10:41 PM

I'd rather have a powerful single GPU and a crisp soundcard that doesn't come with crackles

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infrared · Sep 21, 2006, 10:41 PM

The onboard sound on ASUS motherboards is generally very good anyway.

Sep 21, 2006, 10:42 PM

Yeah but nothin like a Creative X-Fi

Azn Tr14dZ · Sep 21, 2006, 10:58 PM

I use a headset, so i don't really care too much about sound. So my SB Live! 24-Bit is good for my uses.

KennyT772 · Sep 21, 2006, 11:01 PM

just dont use a 3x monster video cards and you are good. somthing like quad sli and a 7600gt should be more then enough.

Azn Tr14dZ · Sep 21, 2006, 11:21 PM

If your physics is 1 slot, and two dual-slot in sli, then you should have 1 left for whatever.

jocksteeluk · Sep 22, 2006, 03:06 AM

all this new card means is its something they will now leave off the combind graphics card, with all the power needed to run one of the regular graphics card surely the ppu could have been added to the cards themselves but rather than give the consumer an actual combined product advance they have decided to to make you pay more, it wouldnt surprise me if they decided to make it an essential for games. so an new VGA set up will cost near $800 for 1 top range vga and one ppu card

InfDamarvel · Sep 22, 2006, 03:36 AM

Yea a good headphones is seriously a plus if you dont have a sound card. Makes it sound extremely well. Plus XD for those who dont have sorround sound. Who rlly cares.

Ketxxx · Sep 22, 2006, 03:44 AM

physics is nice, but ill be sticking to nvidias\atis software solutions where a gpu %can be assigned for physics. i wont waste money on a seperate card until its proved its worth

ktr · Sep 22, 2006, 03:54 AM

that board has good layout...teh connectors and all.

jocksteeluk · Sep 22, 2006, 05:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ketxxx

physics is nice, but ill be sticking to nvidias\atis software solutions where a gpu %can be assigned for physics. i wont waste money on a seperate card until its proved its worth

LOL when they release these cards they will nodoubt begin removing these features from the vga products making the ppu addons a necessity

Agility · Sep 22, 2006, 06:18 AM

You're gonna jam your quad-sli + physics + sound card together. Store the damn heat up and you have a water-boiling temperature in your casing

Sep 22, 2006, 10:51 AM

your not going to be able to use a sound card... and the guys making [physics cards should jump from pcj to pcix16 and take advanage of the third slot....sorry for the typos i m using an onscree keybard

infrared · Sep 22, 2006, 10:54 AM

That's exactly what nvidia are doing... hence the 3rd pcie x16 slot

Sep 21, 2006, 08:58 PM	#1
zekrahminator McLovin Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My house. Posts: 6,280 (2.35/day) Thanks: 105 Thanked 340 Times in 246 Posts System Specs	Asus announces board with support for NVIDIA's physics card While announcing their newest motherboard, the P5N32-SLI Premium/WiFi-AP, Asus accidentally explained the reason behind three PCI Express slots: an NVIDIA physics card. Both ATI and NVIDIA have been working for some time with Havok studios in search of a physics rendering solution. Havok is well known for creating physics engines for games like Half Life 2. The Asus board is designed to run a physics card alongside with Quad-SLI, and was built with the NVIDIA Nforce 590 chipset. The board is compatible with Core 2 Duo and has 4 DIMM slots for DDR2 533/667/800. Source: The Register

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Sep 21, 2006, 09:56 PM	#2
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Sep 21, 2006, 10:00 PM	#3
Azn Tr14dZ Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,415 (1.67/day) Thanks: 16 Thanked 19 Times in 12 Posts System Specs	Well, as an example, when you play some Physics supported games, when you blow up buildings, the debris doesn't disappear, it stays there forever.

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cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,028 (6.42/day) Thanks: 457 Thanked 2,755 Times in 2,224 Posts System Specs	oh ok cool i want one __________________

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Sep 21, 2006, 10:31 PM	#7
Slater Guest Posts: n/a (0/day)	and say goodbye to your sound cards >.< Pretty gay it needs to at least be able to use a PCI slot

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cdawall where the hell are my stars Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: some AF base Posts: 16,028 (6.42/day) Thanks: 457 Thanked 2,755 Times in 2,224 Posts System Specs	the onboard nvidia sound performes well enough i mean which would you reather have uber graphics or a 7.1 soundcard? __________________

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Slater Guest Posts: n/a (0/day)	Yeah but nothin like a Creative X-Fi

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Azn Tr14dZ Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,415 (1.67/day) Thanks: 16 Thanked 19 Times in 12 Posts System Specs	If your physics is 1 slot, and two dual-slot in sli, then you should have 1 left for whatever.

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InfDamarvel Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 461 (0.19/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 13 Times in 13 Posts	Yea a good headphones is seriously a plus if you dont have a sound card. Makes it sound extremely well. Plus XD for those who dont have sorround sound. Who rlly cares.

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Sep 22, 2006, 10:51 AM	#21
Slater Guest Posts: n/a (0/day)	your not going to be able to use a sound card... and the guys making [physics cards should jump from pcj to pcix16 and take advanage of the third slot....sorry for the typos i m using an onscree keybard

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