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    creating the worldwide physics accelerator market with the breakthrough AGEIA™ PhysX™

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Geared2play.com, Mar 23, 2006.

  1. Geared2play.com

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    Sounds pretty interesting. News to me.

     
    Geared2play.com, Mar 23, 2006
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    Pretty cool stuff - I think this is what's coming in the new Dell Renegade PC for almost $10k.
     
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    Hmm. I wonder if this will be a PCI-E part that would run alongside the GPU or if this would be a chip that's built into the graphics card. Interesting concept. Maybe it will take some of the load off the graphics card and allow for less framerate drops during intensive action scenes. Wonder how much they are gonna cost, too.
     
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    Here's a pic of the Renegade for anyone who's interested.
    [​IMG]
     
    beyondthecrux, Mar 23, 2006
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    I think the moral of the concept from the reading is basically to reduce temperatures. Which means this would be the technology implemented in future generation laptops with better vga cards then now. Already they are pushing it with the x1600 in a laptop like w3j
     
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    Reduce temps as in offload some core functions to this physics chip instead of the GPU or CPU or both? I'm not sure where the physics portion of the games are computed/solidified.
     
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    OOOpsy **** completely confused this with the super conductor article
     
    Geared2play.com, Mar 23, 2006
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    This thing was anounced like a year ago wasnt it?
     
    SRD, Mar 23, 2006
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    first time i saw it was awhile ago..was a crytek farcry video if i remember correctly..never heard anything else about it until now though.

    pb,out.
     
    pbcustom98, Mar 23, 2006
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    If I ordered the z70va would I be able to upgrade it with this? :)
     
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    ^ Yup - just Scotch tape it to the back...note that it must be Scotch tape due to compatibility issues with other brand adhesives.
     
    TheUndertow, Mar 23, 2006
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    In other words, probably not. The "Physical Accelerator CPU" will probably be the first of its kind when it is released, meaning that most likely no motherboard today (even ones made by Asus) will be able to upgrade this new type of GPU.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Mar 23, 2006
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    I thought they were actually looking at using PCI or PCIe interfaces.
     
    Mandrel, Mar 24, 2006
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