Graphic Cards Ageia to release PCI-Express PhysX card

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Ageia, the company who looked to make waves in the 3D community with the introduction of physics processing cards as an addon, is announcing the release of a new PhysX card. This one is particularly interesting because they have finally moved away from the PCI bus and are introducing the latest card as a PCI Express variant. This is the first news out of Ageia in quite a while, and good news at that, which is encouraging considering how relatively quiet they have been. Due for release in only ten days, they are also releasing an updated SDK for their cards to help developers optimize games and programs for it:

Also announced today is a new version of the Ageia PhysX SDK - version 2.6 to be more precise - which adds Windows Vista 64-bit and Linux support, along with a set of new deformable objects and self-collision prevention capabilities. Expect a set of new drivers based on the new SDK in the near future.
With a multi-platform SDK, it may encourage faster pickup of the PhysX, something Ageia needs.
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Physics processor chip specialist Ageia is about to launch a PCI Express version of its PhysX card, the company told Reg Hardware today. Considering that Ageia had PCI-E and PCI production samples in March, it's a wonder it has taken them this long to announce product.

Ageia admitted there won't be any performance benefits from the move to PCIe x1 over PCI, and it said that it's not even close to using up the bandwidth that the PCI bus offers. The new cards will be announced on 12 October and should be available shortly thereafter.

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then we need a Motherboard with 3 PCI-Express slots !!!

2 for SLI Setup

1 for PhysX

it's not even close to using up the bandwidth that the PCI bus offers
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means ? then way consuming a PCI-Express slot !!
 
actually....can anyone of u give me some more info on this upcoming PhysX card..what are its main advantages ? what it does ? is it similar to a gfx card ?..and difference in gfx after using a PhysX card ?
 
iosoft said:
then we need a Motherboard with 3 PCI-Express slots !!!

2 for SLI Setup
1 for PhysX

means ? then way consuming a PCI-Express slot !!
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Read the post properly. It mentions a PCIe 1X slot. All motherboards supporting PCIe have at least one of those.. even if it IS an SLI mobo..
 
TechHead said:
Read the post properly. It mentions a PCIe 1X slot. All motherboards supporting PCIe have at least one of those.. even if it IS an SLI mobo..
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my board has 3 i think lol....

though i still dont think ill be buying a PPU
 
Dosent seem like it'll help them really, whatever interface they use. It looks to me that Physx will die out to do Dual core and Quad core CPU's becoming mainstream in the future.
 
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