I saw this on the BFG web site.

I am thinking it is going to be the new physics card? What do you think?

you saw what on BFG's website? was there suppose to be a link?

edit: nm, link wasn't showing up the first time for some reason. showed up on reload.

Well it was already reported that they would be selling the new Physics card

Yeah, it has to be teh new Agea physics card. The timing is about right for the release of the card from what I have heard. It will be interesting to see the impact it has as games ocme out that take advantage of it.

Quote: Originally Posted by DickNervous Yeah, it has to be teh new Agea physics card. The timing is about right for the release of the card from what I have heard. It will be interesting to see the impact it has as games ocme out that take advantage of it.

Ive heard that UT2k7 Will use it (which is the 3rd version of the UT engine)

Heres the link to the Unreal 3 Engine
http://www.unrealtechnology.com/html...ogy/ue30.shtml

edit-I swear Ive read somewhere that Ut2k7 will use Unreal engine 3..

Quote: Originally Posted by Nerdz Ive heard that UT2k7 Will use it (which is the 3rd version of the UT engine) Heres the link to the Unreal 3 Engine http://www.unrealtechnology.com/html...ogy/ue30.shtml edit-I swear Ive read somewhere that Ut2k7 will use Unreal engine 3..

Yah that wounds right.

I hope valve and the like will come out with patches that will allow Half-Life 2 and other games that use physics to take advantage of the cards. If not it would be kind of overkill to buy one now if no game supports it.

That little flash animation has it's history wrong though...

It should be...

First came the CPU
Then came the math co-processor
Then came the CPU with onboard math co-processor
Then came the GPU

Quote: Originally Posted by FeRaL That little flash animation has it's history wrong though... It should be... First came the CPU Then came the math co-processor Then came the CPU with onboard math co-processor Then came the GPU

HEHE tru....

Well I think Quad-SLI will change PC gaming for a long time and it will be released in March 2006 with the release of the Dell Renegade.

Quote: Originally Posted by UndisputedChamp Well I think Quad-SLI will change PC gaming for a long time and it will be released in March 2006 with the release of the Dell Renegade.

Actually quad sli is a bad joke... Who in their right mind is going to buy $1600 of video cards that no game out right now or in the immediate future will even tax it. Not to mention a year from now those cards will be old tech.

I would rather see dual core gpu's or even quad cores though I think with quad cores you would be hard pressed to find a long/tall enough space to put a card into a PC.

Also, if you are going to drop that much money on cards, I would expect you would want to go with high end cooling (water) because those cards are going to be pumping in a lot of heat if they areent exhausting out the back of the PC. Aint no way you are going to squeeze 4 blocks inbetween them.

Kind of pointless in my opinion. That is unless you are Fatal1ty or someone... Even then, he would probably prefere to use a pc that is more in line with what he would be able to use in tournaments for consistance...

If Quad Core SLI ever see's consumers it will probably be in the form of something that MSI did using the MXM modules that nVidia makes for laptops. A PCI Express card that can house 2 MXM modules.

Quote: Originally Posted by FeRaL Actually quad sli is a bad joke... Who in their right mind is going to buy $1600 of video cards that no game out right now or in the immediate future will even tax it. Not to mention a year from now those cards will be old tech. I would rather see dual core gpu's or even quad cores though I think with quad cores you would be hard pressed to find a long/tall enough space to put a card into a PC. Also, if you are going to drop that much money on cards, I would expect you would want to go with high end cooling (water) because those cards are going to be pumping in a lot of heat if they areent exhausting out the back of the PC. Aint no way you are going to squeeze 4 blocks inbetween them. Kind of pointless in my opinion. That is unless you are Fatal1ty or someone... Even then, he would probably prefere to use a pc that is more in line with what he would be able to use in tournaments for consistance...

I agree with that one. By the time that pc hits the market Nvidia will have their 7900 out and if I am not mistaken that quad SLi set up runs on 7800. I know that the 7900 is not a quantum leap in performance (just a 90nm dye shrink) but if they are coming out with new cards that fast having 4 7800s by next year will not be that big of a deal. I agree with FeRal that it is just a way to get more money out of those gamers who don't investigate the hardware they use well enough.

*edit*

Quote: Consider the standard Dell SLI system costs around $3-4,000 you can expect this custom designed PC to cost at least double that. So start saving those pennies! But hey, if you have to get the best...

wow that a lot of bones !!!

quad-sli is about the dumbest thing I've heard of...

It will not make games look any better, it will just allow some guy with a bigger e-penis say, "I get 150+FPS in battlefield2 and you only get 60FPS!!" having the extra 80-90FPS won't help you kill any better or make it look any nicer...it'll just be smoother...

this is FANTASTIC, and it conic-ides just with the realease of the Ps3, PCS WILL OWN!!!!111111

Quad SLI is basically for bragging rights. As long as I can run games at 4xAA and 16xAAF at 1152x864 @70FPS Im fine.

Quote: Originally Posted by T-Hoe-ster Mod this is FANTASTIC, and it conic-ides just with the realease of the Ps3, PCS WILL OWN!!!!111111

PS3? Thats a forking joke

Quote: Originally Posted by FeRaL Actually quad sli is a bad joke... Who in their right mind is going to buy $1600 of video cards that no game out right now or in the immediate future will even tax it. Not to mention a year from now those cards will be old tech. I would rather see dual core gpu's or even quad cores though I think with quad cores you would be hard pressed to find a long/tall enough space to put a card into a PC. Also, if you are going to drop that much money on cards, I would expect you would want to go with high end cooling (water) because those cards are going to be pumping in a lot of heat if they areent exhausting out the back of the PC. Aint no way you are going to squeeze 4 blocks inbetween them. Kind of pointless in my opinion. That is unless you are Fatal1ty or someone... Even then, he would probably prefere to use a pc that is more in line with what he would be able to use in tournaments for consistance...

Yeah I would have to agree with you on that one. I only said that it[Quad-SLI] will change PC gaming, but I never said that the design never had flaws. Tons of heat will be generated since all the cards will be stacked together. Overclocking four GTXs? I don't think so, unless you want your GTXs to fry. I read that some of the nVidia SLI Certified PSUs can't even handle two 512mb GTX's, so how will a PSU handle four GTXs?
Besides four GTXs will create a huge a** energy bill.
Sure right now Quad-SLI will be pointless, but in the future when cards get more advanced and use up less energy, Quad-SLI will be worth it. I remember in November 2004 when SLI first came out. People thought SLI generated too much heat, people thought SLI was a waste of $$$, etc. But when the 7-series GPUs came out, people realized that SLI was going somewhere. The GTX broke benchmark records, and putting two GTXs in SLI meant you were in another dimension.
Give Quad-SLI sometime, I say in about a year Quad-SLI will prove itself worthy. Right now nVidia claims you can run quad-SLI and expect to get like 32 AA and run at resolutions of 25X16. Hi-Def!
Here is a video of Quad-SLI if anyone is interested.
http://reviews.cnet.com/Nvidia_GeFor...7-6414565.html

Quote: Originally Posted by NCXCStud quad-sli is about the dumbest thing I've heard of... It will not make games look any better, it will just allow some guy with a bigger e-penis say, "I get 150+FPS in battlefield2 and you only get 60FPS!!" having the extra 80-90FPS won't help you kill any better or make it look any nicer...it'll just be smoother...

Bigger e-penis lol haha!!11!!1

Quote: Originally Posted by IcEMage Bigger e-penis lol haha!!11!!1

Hey Regular penis Guess what? *SHUN* AHH My internet penis is a gigantic monster...Awsome!

With the birth of Dual cores and such (Apple has had them for a long time) I never saw why you would even go with SLI... I'm just wondering why they don't make a new market that allows you to upgrade RAM and CPU's on your videocard board...

I think SLi is a silly intermedate step, untill we have technology to put more cores on everything. They aren't goin to have 8, 16, 32 SLi in the future, my guess is once they change the way the bus works to the GPU's they will go back to a single card and maybe make the second PCI-E slot for physics...

But it begs the question, why not just have 3 kickass computers, one taking the code, other taking video, and the last doing physics... It's just crazy... It's faster but its a side step...

Getting back to the point...hehe

Does anyone know if the physics card is said to be pcix or not....It would suck if it had to go into a 16x slot....so much for sli (Dreyco made me think of that)....