Ageia's PPU to be launched in March?

[GrammatonJP]

http://www.alienware.com/standalone_pages/ageia_physx.aspx

Available for order with alienware system

Due to space limitations, the Ageia PhysX card is incompatible with GeForce 7900GTX cards in SLI mode

For additional 274

 

[Vesper8]

is there a list somewhere of games that will make full use of this PPU ?

and how likely is it for games that are already out, Oblivion for example, to make use of it via a patch ?

and price estimate is 250-300 ??? wow that's really expensive.. hope no one buys it and they're forced to take that price way down

 

[w00t]

I bet it's PPU ive already seen a PPU by BFG Tech in a store for preorder.

edit: they need to make with intergrated into a processor so you dont need a ppu card.

edit: found link for preorder of bfg tech ppu card
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/PhysX_Accelerators.html

here is some games that support and are going to support it:
http://physx.ageia.com/titles.html

 

[Looney]

I predict this is going to fail. Only the insane are going to pop down for $250 for the card when a better upgrade would be a better GPU. And ATI and nVidia are both going with the Havoks engine. So here you have Aegia competing with ATI and nVidia... with a product that costs almost as much as a similar product that does MORE than just physics (and with PhysX you still need a kickass GPU!).

They'll NEED to drop the price down to $100 or less ASAP if they want to compete with Havoks. And even if they did, i doubt they would survive.

 

[aGreenAgent]

ATI and nVidia are NOT going with the Havok engine. All Havok does is charge developers a huge sum of cash to use an API that can offload physics to a GPU. If you talk to game developers, they'll tell you it's a bad solution - the game bottleneck is still graphics - having the graphics card do other things just bottlenecks it more.

Also - the card will be $99 soon.

 

[shinotenshi]

Originally posted by: Looney
I predict this is going to fail. Only the insane are going to pop down for $250 for the card when a better upgrade would be a better GPU. And ATI and nVidia are both going with the Havoks engine. So here you have Aegia competing with ATI and nVidia... with a product that costs almost as much as a similar product that does MORE than just physics (and with PhysX you still need a kickass GPU!).

They'll NEED to drop the price down to $100 or less ASAP if they want to compete with Havoks. And even if they did, i doubt they would survive.

This is so silly that i had to respond. The PPU can do something that everyone and thier grandmother has been clamoring for, that is to create new gameplay. Unlike ATI or Nvidia, the ppu can actually alter game gameplay. There is a point where eye candy is good enough, I would have no problem playing deus ex if it came out today. so i have to choose playing games that look like deus ex with revoltionary physics, versus the same game made to look like a beauty, please is this even choice?