PhysX

fafa21 · Mar 26, 2007

im making a new com and i wan to know if it's worth buying a PhysX card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121015

Thermopylae_480 · Mar 26, 2007

I would put all your money into parts that can actually be utilized at the moment. If you finish doing that and you discover you have 156 more dollars to spend go for it. There are very few programs that utilize PhysX at the moment.

HookeyStreet · Mar 26, 2007

Thermopylae_480 said:
I would put all your money into parts that can actually be utilized at the moment. If you finish doing that and you discover you have 156 more dollars to spend go for it. There are very few programs that utilize PhysX at the moment.

I agree

fafa21 · Mar 26, 2007

dos a PhysX card go into a normal PCI slot or PCIe x16

Namslas90 · Mar 26, 2007

The one in your link(post #1) is PCI.

kwchang007 · Mar 26, 2007

Thermopylae_480 said:
I would put all your money into parts that can actually be utilized at the moment. If you finish doing that and you discover you have 156 more dollars to spend go for it. There are very few programs that utilize PhysX at the moment.

yeah, a good processor should be good enough for now.

♪♪ · Mar 26, 2007

Yes, put the $ into a Quad Core 2 rather than Dual Core 2

ktr · Mar 26, 2007

Thermopylae_480 said:
I would put all your money into parts that can actually be utilized at the moment. If you finish doing that and you discover you have 156 more dollars to spend go for it. There are very few programs that utilize PhysX at the moment.

also physx does not improve performance what so ever...it does not take off the load from the cpu, but adds another graphics enchantment to the game.

_SPEED · Mar 26, 2007

The Physx COULD IN THEORY take load off the CPU. But the few games that are coding for it, make the Physx code completely optional... and as ktr said, the developers are using it for graphics enchantments only. ;P

The problem with using the Physx with core routines, is that it gets complex to code to make sure the "game experience" is the same when playing WITH and WITHOUT the card. It can be done. But requires building the game engine GROUND UP with the Physx card in mind, and not as a bolt-on afterthouhgt

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