Asus Discloses Nvidia Physics Card

21 Sep, 2006 at 12:17pm ET Article published in Tech

This is something to look forward to.

Nvidia is developing a standalone games physics processing card, motherboard maker Asus has let slip. Announcing a new mobo equipped with three PCI Express x16 slots, the Taiwanese firm said the third connector was specifically for “Nvidia’s upcoming Physics card”.

The revelation comes days after it emerged ATI will be likewise pitching its graphics chip technology as a co-processor for compute-intensive scientific and engineering applications, not just games physics.

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21 Sep 2006 ~ 12:46pm Daxx

profdlp wrote:

This is something to look forward to.

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Are there any games out there that take full advantage of the physics cards? I think I remember an article in MaximumPC that reviewed the Ageia PhysX card and it was fairly disappointing. I am glad to see that the technology is being pursued though because I think it will rock when game designers fully incorporate it into games. Let's hope it catches on!
21 Sep 2006 ~ 1:25pm shwaip Personally, I would rather it didn't. We have quad core cpus coming out eventually. No need to buy another expensive add-on card that game devs do a hardware check for and disable the cool physics, when your computer could handle it just fine.
21 Sep 2006 ~ 2:53pm Daxx Seems like most of my games allow you to manually override any of the software checks that adjust your settings automatically. I would imagine that that would apply to a physics processor as well. At least, I hope it would because I don't plan on going out a buying a physics card right away.
21 Sep 2006 ~ 3:17pm Sledgehammer70 its all about top notch gaming.... I will most likely be sporting a 3 way Graphic system in the future...
21 Sep 2006 ~ 3:23pm RWB The problem(well not really a problem) I see with these physics chips now are that they add more geometry than the card can handle, thus slowing down a system. It adds additional visual quality, as the sake of performance...
21 Sep 2006 ~ 7:14pm TheSmJ Do they plan on you using an old video card for physics, or will they release their own stand alone card?

The title suggests the latter, but thats not what I've been hearing.
22 Sep 2006 ~ 1:54pm septimus I couldn't help but notice that it is a socket 775 mobo, undoubtedly for core 2 CPUs. Think an AM2 version will be produced?