BFG Ageia PhysX available at Best Buy

fuck


i have 90 in gift certificates to thare, and i need a HDD, as i need more space, but damn


it looks as if it is oin to suck


idk, BB as a first launch partner looses my bisnuess
 
You gotta be pure stupid or mad rich if you're going to shell out $299 for a piece of hardware that is next to useless at the moment...
 
Backordered.

I wouldn't count on your discount getting you anywhere here. Thinking back to my BB days, when the hot new video cards or etc. would hit the shelves, our discount was $0.
 
MrFace said:
You gotta be pure stupid or mad rich if you're going to shell out $299 for a piece of hardware that is next to useless at the moment...
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and buy it from best buy of all places...
 
still no pci-e *cries*


Yes, I'm going to bitch about it as long as I live!
 
I didnt even pay $300 for my 7800, no way im paying that for a physics card
 
i'm going to laugh my arse off when by next year all the best games nearly require a PPU and all these non-believers are scrambling to scrape up $300 for one

i want to see a review of GRAW with and without, i think all these people with systems that are moaning about performance might see things diferently when they see how it plays with a PPU
 
nobody_here said:
i'm going to laugh my arse off when by next year all the best games nearly require a PPU and all these non-believers are scrambling to scrape up $300 for one

i want to see a review of GRAW with and without, i think all these people with systems that are moaning about performance might see things diferently when they see how it plays with a PPU
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You might want to check this thread before we laugh our arse off at you:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17568825
 
I think UT will be the tale of the PhysX, it's going to make or break it.
 
Ockie said:
I think UT will be the tale of the PhysX, it's going to make or break it.
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exactly what i was thinking

also, if most games require SLI graphics horsepower to make playing with the PPU useful, thats gonna hurt alot
 
also, if most games require SLI graphics horsepower to make playing with the PPU useful, thats gonna hurt alot
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It will kill the PPU, as less than 1% of gamers have a SLI setup. When less than 1% of your target audience can use a feature that your working on implementing in a game, then typically you would spend less time making it what it should be and it ends up as a bolt on effort, like GRAW is looking like.
 
$300 is ludricous. I can get myself an Opteron 146 and a 1GBx2 kit of RAM for that much.... I just need $300 first.
 
Well, this is only the results of just 1 game. If we see a trend of these games being affected by FPS drops and whatnot, then it could be driver problems, or the last solution, the card not being worth it.

I'm still going to wait to buy one as I'm only mildly impressed with the results, but again, it's only 1 game.
 
Well that comparo did look different, at least.
I dont think its worth $300 right now. If every game starts to come with this added feature then it might be interesting to think about. BUT.....this split between HavokFX and Aegia is going to make things hard too.

Plus where am I supposed to find a slot for this?????

I'll take vanilla for now. An explosion is an explosion. Although I think the effects in the GR:AW demo are pretty cool without any fancy accelerator.
 
i'm going to laugh my arse off when by next year all the best games nearly require a PPU and all these non-believers are scrambling to scrape up $300 for one
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Next year they'll only be $150.
 
For the longest time they rumored the 100 price range.... but then in the last couple of months I just see the numbers go up like our oil prices.


i think the 300$ price is for the hype and exclusivity.
 
300 clams!? . . . . . holy price gouging batman!

/waits till games use it and prices come down.
 
Ockie said:
For the longest time they rumored the 100 price range.... but then in the last couple of months I just see the numbers go up like our oil prices.


i think the 300$ price is for the hype and exclusivity.
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I don't know where you heard the $100 price rumor, but Ageia has been suggesting the current price range for a year at least. This is from Extremetech, E3 05:
We sat down the company and witnessed two demos running live on first-run, A0 silicon. The final silicon that will ship in boards is A1—AGEIA made a simple metal spin, but made no major changes to the silicon design. It'll be produced on a standard .13 micron CMOS process at TSMC. Who's going to build boards with this thing? So far, ASUS is the first to announce a partnership with AGEIA. They'll have a PPU board with AGEIA's chip on the market in the fourth quarter of this year, with 128MB of GDDR3 memory, for roughly $249 to $299. Initially, it will only come only in a PCI card, with PCIe cards expected further in the future.
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They obviously missed their original release date, but they've stuck to their pricing structure.
 
Low Roller said:
I don't know where you heard the $100 price rumor, but Ageia has been suggesting the current price range for a year at least. This is from Extremetech, E3 05:They obviously missed their original release date, but they've stuck to their pricing structure.
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It was an Inquirer article... yes I know I shouldn't believe it... but that was believable considering that the current price of $300 is the price of a high end computer component and is not a required piece of the puzzel to be able to play games and enjoy them.
 
I do agree $300 is a lot of money. I'm not too suprised though, this is the first generation of a completely new catagory of product. Early adopters usually pay through the nose, and the PPU will be no exception.

I'm not rushing out to buy one of these cards either. I'll likely upgrade both my CPU and GPU before I'll shell out that kind of cash for PhysX. Still, I'll be keeping an open mind toward Ageia. I'm glad to see game physics get this kind of attention.

At this point I hope to pick up a PPU in about a year, hopefully there is a PCI-E version out by then.
 
some one sent them an email asking about the PCI-E plans, and they responded that they expect to have it out by the end of this year.
 
my question is why are people so eager to see this fail? were you all so eager to see x-64 fail as well?
 
DemonDiablo said:
my question is why are people so eager to see this fail? were you all so eager to see x-64 fail as well?
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I don't think many people are that eager to see it fail, or really care if it fails. It's just how they word some things might lead others to believe that they care. However, that being said there are some legimate reasons why some may want PPUs to fail. For one, if they become required for decent gameplay then the cost of a gaming computer is going to increase substantially - and they were already pretty expensive to begin with. I can afford it but I know I've built systems for many gamers that could only afford just the bare essentials - if PPUs become a requirement they're going to be in a world of hurt.
 
Ockie said:
still no pci-e *cries*


Yes, I'm going to bitch about it as long as I live!
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As someone still living in the stone ages known as AGP this is quite nice.

jAkUp said:
Wrong.
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Can I borrow your crystal ball?
 
It's useless to me until they release a PCI-e version. Not to mention the whole....decelleration thing....lmao! I'll buy it for about a $150.
 
Hahaha. FPS-minded fools. You can get a 50% increase in FPS by forcing Counter-Strike to load in DX8, but do you do it? NO! Why not? Because DX8 looks like shit. I also think that the implementation in GRAW is rather half-assed though, the shards don't look very metallic, and variable shapes might be nice. The former is more a GPU issue than a PPU issue though.
 
The GRAW implementation was a last-second thing they probably got paid by Ageia to implement. Of course it will be half-assed.

I'm waiting for UT2007, Cell Factor, and most importantly, Crysis before I make a judgement.

I know all the kiddies desparately want this thing to fail so they don't have the added expense. I ask you this then: why are all you nay-sayers using 3D graphics cards? If you're so opposed to external processors to assist gaming, then why are you using the technology (albiet in a different form)? Shouldn't all the opponents be using 2D video cards?

Yeah, I like that. I'm sigging myself.
 
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