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[The Batt?sai]

Well it was a good idea. Nothing more. This had me rofl at the responses lol

I've never seen gif's and smileys on overclockers.com. haha. this card isn't all that great loL

 

[harrkev]

That is a load of complete BS.

Well, the card IS expensive, and it does not really do much right now. The future might be different.

But I wanted to comment on the attitude.

The Ageia card is only worth about $75 to me. Does it make the characters fall differently when they jump? Do they dodge and weave away from fire better? Will it allow me to see in infrared or ultraviolet ingame like the Predator so that I can stalk my opponents? No, No, and (sadly) No. The card does make extra onscreen garbage, debris, and greebles.

Well, going from 800x600 to 1600x1200 with anti-aliasing does not make characters fall differrently when they jump. Nor do they dodge and weave... on and on... blah blah blah...

It is called "eye candy." I would not buy one. But the type of person who would spend $1000 on a pair of video cards is the same sort of person who is the target market of the physics card. I am not saying that those people are sane and I am not saying that there are a lot of them. But they do exist.

 

[0roo0roo]

the blood spurting demo i saw was rather sad.
more like separate chunks than blood
its not bs, most would rather wait for gpu or one of our extra cpu cores to do this work.
improved graphics are fundamental to gaming. no one says oh...i desperately need more physics generally its not such a big loss.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: harrkev
The future might be different.

And maybe in the future I'll buy it! But, as of right now...I am living in the present. And in the present, it doesn't really seem like a good buy. It'll probably be cheaper, available on the PCI-E bus and have a mature manufactoring process by the time I "need" it. Or...it'll turn into a total flop and they won't be made anymore. Leaving a lot of people potentially holding a $300 paperweight.

 

[Viper GTS]

3D acceleration was a rather expensive, generally useless technology when it was first released too.

Specialization is the way of the future in the PC, this is just a step in that direction.

Viper GTS

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: quasarsky
Well it was a good idea. Nothing more. This had me rofl at the responses lol

I've never seen gif's and smileys on overclockers.com. haha. this card isn't all that great loL

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
3D acceleration was a rather expensive, generally useless technology when it was first released too.

Specialization is the way of the future in the PC, this is just a step in that direction.

Viper GTS

it was generally useless really. its not as if we use 3d accel for word processing or anything these days either, its stilll gaming. but gaming was a killer ap. and gl quake was just awesome and necessary, games were going 3d and there was no turning back.

i read somewhere computer gaming in dollars has shrunk since the 90's. using such a card will divide such a market even further, wasting dev dollars and such. so i dunno if its such a good thing.

 

[skace]

The point is when people think physics, they think of breaking down a door or smashing a boat through a dock. They aren't thinking of how the blood looks when it spurts out. In other words, physics is supposed to be tangible effects on the environment / gameplay. Until the card can deliver that, it is useless. They need to at least be able to demo that functionality.

 

[Thraxen]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
3D acceleration was a rather expensive, generally useless technology when it was first released too.

Specialization is the way of the future in the PC, this is just a step in that direction.

Viper GTS

Maybe, but only if these things get integrated together. The price for a top of the line gaming machine is getting too high these days. Next we'll be expected to put AI cards in our rigs. PC gaming will die if this trend continues.

 

[0roo0roo]

well to be honest a top of the line gaming rig is relatively cheap these days. stuff wasn't cheap in the past at all.. and it was sh*t to boot

 

[NanoStuff]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Specialization is the way of the future in the PC

Error. Unification.