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Have a GPU, now you need a PPU!
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:57 am
by Sabre
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

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:17 am
by complacent
Have you read about that
GB video card yet?

Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:25 am
by Sabre
Ya, I saw that annoucement the other day too. WTH would you need a gig of RAM on a GFx card for?!?!?!
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:31 am
by complacent
So it can have teh fastAr!!!1
BTW, did you see any of the FreeBSD bugtracks that were posted on securityfocus yesterday?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:02 am
by chicken n waffles
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