Quote Originally Posted by Stuperman
Yeah, I think it is stupid. Gimme an Agiea card any day over this. It's gonna take a lot to convince me that a card designed to do graphics, is better at physics than a card designed to do physics.
Only time will tell when UT2007 and Crysis comes out. What's so hard to believe that a GPU can be used as PPU? I mean it's all about calculations, I do think a x1600 does have more processing power than the AGIEA.

If you guys read the other article, the RD600 physics system has 2 x19s and 1 x16. And the x16 is sitting on a riser card running on a x1 PCI-E lane. There are plenty of boards today that has spare PCI-E slots, leaving you room for your PCI sound card and perhaps TV tuner. If you're the kinda guy that needs more than 2 extra PCI slot, I don't think any ATX boards will fit your need if you plan to run multi-gpu.

With 3 x1900, that's probably an overkill for most gameplay since more "objects" in the game will only end up killing performance.

It'd be really damn cool if they can run physics as 1.5 + 0.5 instead of 1+1 or 2+1, so you get some physics with your CF setup and won't lose much fps (or $$$).