Have a GPU, now you need a PPU!

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:57 am

Yep, PPU's are now being sold by Alienware (aka, DELL!) and some others. Seems like most are offering the Physx Engine. Nvidia recently said that their dirvers are incoperating a feature to offload the physics of games to the GPU. Pretty cool stuff

Post by **complacent** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:17 am

Have you read about that GB video card yet?

Post by **Sabre** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:25 am

Ya, I saw that annoucement the other day too. WTH would you need a gig of RAM on a GFx card for?!?!?!

Post by **complacent** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:31 am

So it can have teh fastAr!!!1

BTW, did you see any of the FreeBSD bugtracks that were posted on securityfocus yesterday?

chicken n waffles · Post by **chicken n waffles** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:02 am

sabre wrote:Ya, I saw that annoucement the other day too. WTH would you need a gig of RAM on a GFx card for?!?!?!

so you can render doom 3 w/ maxed out settings and get more than 5 fps!!111