HD 4890 and GTX 275 Reviews

[Eastcoasthandle]

Yes, criticized it for not running it on the GPU or CPU. Any work they take off the GPU, and move over the your dedicated PhysX GPU is a win in my book. I have an OC'ed, water cooled 280 just waiting to free up the graphics GPU from PhysX work.

Putting the extra work on the CPU would be even worse for overall system performance.

It's fine if you don't like the way a game used a PhysX effect, if it just looked bad, but not liking the effect just because we could have loaded down the GPU or CPU with it, isnt a good reason to me.

Flying debris and interactive fog is hard not to like.

This really makes no sense (at least to me). What I understood in your post is that those with the specific hardware should use of physx only. We know that everyone who wants to play a certain game may have a low, mid or high end PC. I can't see why they should be ignored or excluded from playing any particular game. This isn't a console (where certain games will only play on certain hardware) but PC. As such all who own one should be able to enjoy any game of their choice. As long as they adhere to what's naturally expected from it's minimal spec requirement.

So in the end what we have is:
-Those use physx who usually have higher then normal PC specs.
VS
-Those with low, mid to high end PCs who can enjoy physics using just their CPU.