Asus to make PhysX cards

Seeing as pc gaming is practically dead. I dont think Ill be rushing out to buy another peice of fancy hardware.... Im sorry the $600 x800pro I bought last summer has really only been used for like 3 or 4 different games

Impressions + 2 videos here:

http://www.gdhardware.com/events/e3/2005/day1/001.htm

Everyone posting that this is a dead in the water item needs to just wait and see how it actually does once it hits retail. There has been alot of support announced for it and I honestly think that if you drop this card in and see a huge performance increase people will gobble them up (I know I will). Bascially this is another upgrade path that lets me keep my current video card maybe a generation longer than otherwise. From those U3 engine shots, I cant imagine how that game would run decently on affordable hardware w/o one of these. But real world performance tests once released will obviously make the final decission for us all.

too bad they already failed

This shit belongs merged into a video card, not seperately. Oy. :P

Well they boned that up. Maybe they'll get acquired over time, but I still say it will only work as something added to videocards

$300 for a graphics card and $300 for physics cards. Ugh...

This will fail. With dual core cpus approaching they will be able to handle this stuff just fine without an extra card to do it.

This is unfortunatel.

Man I really wish they had one of these in a next-gen console - since these aren't going to be very widely accepted for a while (even longer now that they set the price so stupid-high), their application is going to be limited to single-player games (can't have one guy initiating all kinds of crazy physics action if it chugs everyone else in the game without the card...). If they were in every next-gen console, everyone would have the same processing power so we could have huge garry's mod style physics battles

I want more physics dammit

I thought the XBOX360 price was yet to be set?

lol

This is why I'm moving over to consoles!

Heh, this will tank SO bad.

doesnt anyone remember the Voodoo2? an addon card at $300 and (IIRC) a cpl games supported it (Quake1 being a main one). and this was what, ~10 years ago? $300 was a bit more back then.

Take in account that the game needs to support this board so not only you´ll have to pay big bucks for a addon card but it adon card will only boost a handfull of games. Very very bad if you ask me.

They should do some talking to MOBO makers ane include the card in those Gamers Motherboards (Fatality and stuff) for like $30 bucks more.

It'd have to offer some serious enhancments in a lot of games before I am going to blow $250 on it. I don't like to spend that much on my video cards and that helps out EVERY game.

That's about 150 dollars too much. I was considering buying one of these but I absolutely won't be bothered to get one for this price. I can deal with 300 or 400 for a video card because you have to have one to play the games but this is just an addon thing.

Physics is just the hot new thing now anyway. So far I haven't played any games that actually incorporated it in an interesting way. I mean the whole last half of HL2 was this orgy of "OMG, like, the world is soooo real cause, like, you can pick up a box and hurl it at things. Gabe told me that this is emergent game play." I can't say that I am excited about spending a lot of money so I can have that experience in other games.

Maybe I'll buy one if some developer actually uses physics in an interesting way that makes the game more FUN but until then I'll wait.

$250 and no games support it yet? No WAY!
$50 at MAX as it is now. Could be higher if more than 50% of all games would support it.

If it turns a game from 30-45 FPS with occasional dips down below 20-15 because of heavy physics calculations straining the CPU to one that move at 60 FPS or more almost constantly, and if it's implemented and supported in the next set of big upcoming games, then count me in.

If it's the price of, or just above the price of a new game, that is.

This sounds like something for the hardcore gamer that bought a P4EE processor last year and is going to pick up a 512 meg 6800 Ultra in next week currently, but I hope it works out and becomes affordable

Fuck that. I was expecting prices to be sub-$100