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Alienware has added Ageia to the bill as well....seems now that the boards are out that allow proper lane-configuration for additional pci-e16x slots, the card has some followers. About bloodly time, I say, although i DID know that this was going to happen since November last year. Gigabyte's 4x16 pci-e slotted board makes sense now to some, as the SLI can be run on one set, while the Ageia can be run on the second...wasn't meant for 4 videocards...EVER!!! nVidia released dual-pcb versions of the top card to go with Ageia...now those dual-card-on-one-pci-e connector 7800/7900's make some sense, as do the dual-chip-on-one-pcb vidcards, EH?
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agh this is getting overwhelming. and 10K s way to much for a PC, I don't care how much you have.
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That's a farce built upon by the addition of Aegia support to the nVidia SLi driver framework. nVidia is not porting off physics to the gpu...thier gpu is only capable of processing physics for lighting conditions, and not collision physics, and thier current memory-control scheme does not allow for the sort of caching nessecary to make ANY sort of physics calculations feasable. Next-gen cards, however...
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Wow, very impressive computer, too bad it's a Dell... Even with a physics processor, 4.26 gig CPU, 30 inch monitor, and all that extra stuff, there's just no way it's worth 10 k. That's insane :P It will be interesting to see what happens once these physics processors become more common. I can imagine games finally being able to do away with disappearing ragdolls.
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They also said that the card doing the physics would hand of the info to the DX9 driver...with NO cpu intervention. Uh, what?
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