One for the geeks - AEGIA PhysX PPU

Duke on 24/10/2007 - 19:10

Hey guys,
I know this is a long shot, but maybe some of the people with techie connections may be able to help me.

Me and my friend are after a pair of AEGIA PhysX PPUs (Physics Processing Units).
If you have no idea what they are, then just tune out now.
StaticIce has them starting at $250, and they've been that price for well over a year now.

We'd like you to try and keep this in the back of your mind in case a once-in-a-lifetime deal comes up.

Or if anyone works in a computer store and can make me a deal for two cards…

Who knows.

Thanks for you time.

David.

p.s. here's a wiki link if anyone's interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhysX

Find Me A Bargain

Comments

  • KLoNe on 24/10/2007 - 21:47

    Price isn't going anywhere. Either is the product. It's a waste. Nothing is designed for it and nothing is BEING designed for it.

  • scotty on 24/10/2007 - 22:15

    I think you'll find that a new general purpose CPU will be faster doing physics calculation.

    That is what happened when video cards first got their own T&L-enabled GPU back in the late 90's. For a period of time it is actually faster to do T&L in faster CPU than inside the GPU. However, due to the size of market GPU evolves and specialises and is now doing its job much faster than general-purpose CPU.

    As there is not enough market for this physics processing unit thing, it won't be able to compete against the next generation CPU IMHO…

  • Duke on 24/10/2007 - 22:31

    Yeah me and my mate are pondering the same points.
    I've mentioned to him that the new Phenom family of AMD CPUs may be able to improve physics, given the right coding.
    KLoNe, there's heaps of games being written, and from what I've seen of videos they seem pretty decent too. If there's a few more good PhysX games released for free download, then perhaps it'll be worth paying $150 for the card. As opposed to the people that bill be buying the latest 9800GTX HD XTX OC edition for $1000 just to play Crysis.

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