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    Ageia 100m for Notebooks?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by RobHague, Nov 28, 2007.

  1. RobHague

    RobHague Notebook Consultant

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    Any chance we will see this available outside of OEMs?

    DELL have it in their M1730. If AGEIA want more market penetration then they will need to get more notebooks using it, so they will need to allow people to get it outside of buying a laptop equipped with one (since there is only one model available).

    Maybe the PhysX 100M for Notebooks Express Slot? I would be interested in one, if the price was not OTT. Id go up to £100 for it, but anything above that and id pass.
     
    RobHague, Nov 28, 2007
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  2. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    I would like it too, but I think it requires a PCI slot or something similar to be able to deliver fast information...
    Somehow though,the effects added by Ageia PhysX seem unreal,and odd . But it`d be worth blowing up stuff and actually taking the load off from the GPU.If that is the case...
     
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    Ever.monk Notebook Consultant

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    Theres all this talk about taking the load off the GPU, but isnt physics CPU related? If thats the case, CPUs are plenty powerful at the moment, and no game has been able to overload the CPU before the GPU so far, well except SupCom and crysis.
     
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  4. ShinAkuma135

    ShinAkuma135 The King of Beasts

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    ageia is completely pointless right now. Only one game supports it in a tiny little area. Most GPUs have built in physics processing anyways, especially the high end cards. I don't think many games in the future will support ageia either. Maybe someone with a mid end card like 8600m or the like will find ageia help them out a bit.
     
    ShinAkuma135, Nov 28, 2007
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  5. JCMS

    JCMS Notebook Prophet

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    All DX10 cards have a physic engine. In games that support it, you can enable "Hardware PhyX Acceleration" in the option if you have a DX10 card. So the AIGEA thingy is pretty much useless, since that's what it does.
     
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    Well, I have a DX9 card. Wonder if it would actually do something... (7950GTX)
     
    eleron911, Nov 29, 2007
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    NavyDad6 Notebook Geek

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    As previously stated, physics is basically a CPU function. This is why multi-core CPU's will be the driving force behind rendering dedicated physics cards useless. With multi-core CPU's it is a programming issue, vice a hardware issue to have better physics in games. Game designers need to start utilizing the extra cores to solve their physics problems.
     
    NavyDad6, Nov 29, 2007
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