Intel appears to be acquiring the company which supplies the physics API to many games on the market... this is an interesting turn of events considering the rumors going around Larabee....
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070914/20070914005675.html?.v=1
Intel appears to be acquiring the company which supplies the physics API to many games on the market... this is an interesting turn of events considering the rumors going around Larabee....
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070914/20070914005675.html?.v=1
Oh dear...this could be good or bad...
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hmm I like the idea of having the cpu with it's own physics core(s) built in.
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Yeah, it could be good or bad....Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan
Having looked at the behavior of Bioshock, Havoc is currently defaulted to 2 threads (see Bioshocks config ini files), if Intel plays dirty (which has been known to happen), they could cripple the software based physics API on multicores to run poorly on AMD equipment... that would be bad
it's been out for a while
it's called c2d.
not happening,they could cripple the software based physics API on multicores to run poorly on AMD equipment
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thats nice!!!
no more Ageia PhysX crap! Instead a "native" one inside the processor... maybe Nehalem will have this feature
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I think they are going to make Havok make heavy use of SSE4
thats nice!!!
no more Ageia PhysX crap! Instead a "native" one inside the processor... maybe Nehalem will have this feature
Yea now instead of buying a dedicated physx card you now have to upgrade your CPU and possibly your chipset.
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Once it is a native part of the processor, you will stop to worry about a card.Yea now instead of buying a dedicated physx card you now have to upgrade your CPU and possibly your chipset.
And at the time Nehalem become retail, my hardware will be old and slow. Just in time to buy another rig
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I know, just fishing for the bad angle in this...
maybe if they release a 32 core cpu, we can have decent physics in games from the cpu!
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Once it is a native part of the processor, you will stop to worry about a card.
And at the time Nehalem become retail, my hardware will be old and slow. Just in time to buy another rig
Id still rather buy a pci card than a cpu/chipset, its alot cheaper.
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no it hasn't.. I'm talking about having cores that only do physics.
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QMFT! Nehalem might have a 1600MHz FSB LOL! Then the higher end model will ship with CSI. So old motherboard are out anyway. Only the budget model might ship with the MC on the North-bridge.Once it is a native part of the processor, you will stop to worry about a card.
And at the time Nehalem become retail, my hardware will be old and slow. Just in time to buy another rig
Posted by duploxxx
I am sure JF is relaxed and smiling these days with there intended launch schedule. SNB Xeon servers on the other hand....
Posted by gallag
there yo go bringing intel into a amd thread again lol, if that was someone droping a dig at amd you would be crying like a girl.qft!
if you are building a new computer, you have to buy a cpu and chipset anyways.... right? so in that case it would be cheaper then to have to buy an additional graphics/physics card. i think larabee will be for pcie 2.0 though
i would imagin that this is for intels terascale (larabee) project. they could allow 10 or 15 cores to work on physics and the others to work on graphics (or whatever).
I've seen a lot of things where more CPU cores outperform physX...
who cares if it's dedicated or not, we just need it to do the job and in this day and age of core multiplication I don't think that we'll be running short on hardware threads for a bit.
Nah, all Nehalem parts will use CSI (now known as Intel Quickpath) regardless of where the MC resides.QMFT! Nehalem might have a 1600MHz FSB LOL! Then the higher end model will ship with CSI. So old motherboard are out anyway. Only the budget model might ship with the MC on the North-bridge.
very interesting. this could lead to some incredible optimizations as well as further development in 3d animation.
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Cool, thanks for the info, but the point still stands, we'll need new motherboards.
Posted by duploxxx
I am sure JF is relaxed and smiling these days with there intended launch schedule. SNB Xeon servers on the other hand....
Posted by gallag
there yo go bringing intel into a amd thread again lol, if that was someone droping a dig at amd you would be crying like a girl.
Thats it, I now officially regret ever buying an intel product.
My current Quad will be the last damn intel cpu to set foot in my door, I'm not supporting intel EVER again. EVER
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why bad thing ?
intel have success and money, if they want to buy something let them do it
when you want to buy something is another person forbidding you ? no, so let intel buy what they want
they produce good things, so customer 'll always have good cpus
am not in america, but everybody knows the american way of live, the american dream etc... in america when you have lot of money you buy what you want, right ? so intel can do the same ( yes this is very schematic )
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