dailytech.com — FPS Labs is reporting that NVIDIA will soon announce its intention to acquire AGEIA. FPS Labs' Stu Grubbs has no financial terms for the deal, but notes that his confidential source expects the deal to become official sometime this week.
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tumbler360Feb 5, 2008
the reviews of the ageia cards seemed confident that we'd be seeing video/physics cards in teh near future and that this tech would be combined for an all in one card. I'd love ot see nvidia drop a combo card on the market.
scrappy1850Feb 5, 2008
do they have to ask your permission before they use the bathroom too? and crysis doesnt look like any console port i have ever seen.
hueythefreemanFeb 5, 2008
Left?
thugokFeb 5, 2008
It will definitely have an effect.
mrpigFeb 5, 2008
Yeah. It's also on nVidia's website. Has been for some time.
h4mx0rFeb 6, 2008
Okay you primitive screwhead, listen up. If you're spending more than 400 dollars on a video card because you want "enough power" then you're an idiot who doesn't know how to research and shop smart. Shop S-mart!
bdbelysianFeb 6, 2008
No. I realized the potential of real-time physics for gaming but I never jump on anything new. I’m waiting to see how this plays out. I’ve read dozens of articles about PPU’s and how GPU’s and CPU’s might do that work instead. I’d never buy two video cards to have one perform physics duties so that was out of the question. I thought PPU’s could perform physics for games and assist the CPU when gaming is not happening.Once I heard that CPU manufacturers were coming out with multi cores architectures I already knew physics would take off no ones business. Now I’m waiting to see what hardware will be running it. My bet is on the CPU manufacturers. Ageia can keep designing their physics software for game developers but the number crunching will be done by one or more cores of a multi-core CPU.
thekidhenry1Feb 6, 2008
AGEIA hardware is crap. You can do better on a GPU. NVIDIA wants the software and the patents.
indigomossFeb 6, 2008
8800GT is all I have to say. I bought a 2900Pro for $130 dollars and it's able to play Crysis on High 30fps @1280x720 with the Very High mod and Taowolf's awesome config. If I had a 8800GT, I could even push it higher than it already is. There's two type of people that buy the 8800Ultra's, enthusiasts and dumb asses that don't need them. I'm guessing you'd be part of the latter.