Are there still physx cards out there?

Not that I am intending to buy one anytime soon, but I am curious if there are still PhysX cards even out there ''in the wild'' anymore. :DAre there still physx cards out there?
Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.Are there still physx cards out there?
EbayOr2 Nvidia video cards. Something like a GTX 285 + 8600 or 9600 GT.
[QUOTE=''organic_machine'']Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.[/QUOTE]I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff
[QUOTE=''dackchaar''][QUOTE=''organic_machine'']Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.[/QUOTE]I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff[/QUOTE]Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?
[QUOTE=''organic_machine'']Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?[/QUOTE]
Yes, because a dedicated GeForce video card for PhysX would be faster and have more RAM than a PhysX card.
[QUOTE=''organic_machine''][QUOTE=''dackchaar''][QUOTE=''organic_machine'']Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.[/QUOTE]I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff[/QUOTE]Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?[/QUOTE]exactly, that's his point, but I suppose that they wouldn't be entirely worthless, considering that you card could be freed up from the load of calculating the physics, which probably doesn't affect it too much
[QUOTE=''dackchaar'']exactly, that's his point, but I suppose that they wouldn't be entirely worthless, considering that you card could be freed up from the load of calculating the physics, which probably doesn't affect it too much[/QUOTE]All you would need for Physx though would be a 8600 GT/9500 GT at MINIMUM though. A 8600 GT is $50. A 9500 GT is around $60. If I went PhysX though, I would try and get 9600 GSO at least or a single slot 9800 GT.
[QUOTE=''organic_machine''][QUOTE=''dackchaar''][QUOTE=''organic_machine'']Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.[/QUOTE]I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff[/QUOTE]Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?[/QUOTE]Well, not really.Having one card doing just graphics and one doing just physics, will perform better than one card trying to do graphics and physics at the same time.Of course, if you have another PCI-E 16x slot, you can get a cheap card like a 9600GSO or something, and use that solely as a PhysX card. But if I recall correctly, the AGEIA PhysX cards were standard PCI, which would be suitable for people with no available PCI-E 16x slots.
[QUOTE=''broken_bass_bin'']Having one card doing just graphics and one doing just physics, will perform better than one card trying to do graphics and physics at the same time.Of course, if you have another PCI-E 16x slot, you can get a cheap card like a 9600GSO or something, and use that solely as a PhysX card. But if I recall correctly, the AGEIA PhysX cards were standard PCI, which would be suitable for people with no available PCI-E 16x slots.[/QUOTE]They also made PCI-E 1x PhysX cards because most boards now a days have one to two PCI-E 1x slots as well as a couple PCI-E 16x slots.
The PhysX cards came out in both PCI and PCI-E versions. There were also both 128MB and 256MB configurations.



And even now for PhysX acceleration, the PPU's still hold up well, and compare favorably to CUDA 1.* cards (8800 and 9**0 series). You'd need a CUDA 2 card (GTX 2**) or better to really have enough headroom to where the lack of PPU won't matter.



That, and last I checked, having an ati and an nvidia video driver (even if one isn't the main adapter) rarely is a good thing. So in that respect, an ATi user would still find it preferable to have the PPU than to have to buy an nvidia card and deal with potential snafu.