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Old May 28, 2010, 05:42 AM
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Yup.
My impression is that Ferminators are hitting hard in nVidia sales so they're forced to beg ATI users to buy a at least a cheap nVidia card for PhysX.
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Old May 28, 2010, 05:54 AM
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My impression is that Ferminators are hitting hard in nVidia sales so they're forced to beg ATI users to buy a at least a cheap nVidia card for PhysX.
Pretty funny actually! If they want PHYSx to stay alive, they HAVE to make it more mainstream anyway.

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Old May 28, 2010, 06:18 AM
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Smart move by Nvidia... Wel actually it would have been smarter to never impose the restirction in the first place. I mean what kind of logic leads to a policy that prevents people from buying more of your cards??? Even if it is lower profit margin cards it is still a sale to someone who is choosing ATI as their main processor anyways...

I see this as a defensive move that we can owe to the success of 5xxx series and the lateness of Fermi. Scramble for whatever cash you can grab.

Wonder if the price of GT220/240/250 cards will jump? They are a great low power, low heat companion for a 5xxx series. Doesn't cover the air intake of my 5870 card and doesn't need an extra power connector. And from what I can see the 96 shaders on my GT240 are only used between 10% and 48% by Physx. 48% is the Fluidmark benchmark which you would expect to use as much Physx power as it has avalable.... ???
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Old May 28, 2010, 07:00 AM
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Very interesting. I'll wait around and see how this pans out. May buy a cheap Nividia card soon if all goes well.
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Old May 28, 2010, 08:09 AM
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awesome as I love physx for some things. Hopefully more games will support it now.
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I never though I'd see the day that this happened. to Nvidia.
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looks like theyre worse off than i tought.
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Do some comment have been deleted? I was sure to have commented on this one. Well here we go. Seems that Fermi is hitting hard than Nvidia thought. I don't think that is gonna change a big thing...
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Very interesting. I'll wait around and see how this pans out. May buy a cheap Nividia card soon if all goes well.
Well, in my situation, I might buy another GFX card for the family rig and Re-use the 8800GTS 640mb Superclokc that I have in there for PHYSX.....
We'll see if more game are using PHYSx and if NVIDIA stays "honest" on that one...
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this is an interesting development indeed. I wonder if they will take it away if they come out with some killer successful architecture in the future
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