Worth buying a PhysX card now?

Syncroneyes · December 13th, 2007, 11:51 AM

I was thinking of investing £60 in one for christmas because i saw the 128mb BFG version relatively cheap, is it worth buyin one yet these days?.... your opinions are most welcome..

**Regeneration** · December 13th, 2007, 12:39 PM

No, still just a waste of money.

Dyre Straits · December 13th, 2007, 12:50 PM

Absolutely not....never has been....never will be.

If you've got money to put toward one of these, just send it to me.

Syncroneyes · December 13th, 2007, 12:53 PM

question: just say I did for a second go out and buy one, would it be compatible with games like Crysis? would i see any performance increase in those games? or is only going to operate on games with an Ageia sticker on the cover...?

Mjoelnir · December 13th, 2007, 01:35 PM

there is a list of games which use physix... and crysis is not one of those. its a total waste of money and only one game has a real big performance increase (warmonger, which is a game made by ageia SURPRISE!). i've seen UT3 with and with out physix.. nearly NO difference

IModAmd · December 13th, 2007, 02:06 PM

Well i seen somes people with physx cards ... i can recommand you to buy one of you got an older processor like an p4 530 it's make great's changes if you got an old cpu but in your case... with your video card and your cpu.. it's will just do an bottleneck and slow down your entire system

**Chaos** · December 13th, 2007, 02:08 PM

I am surprised they still make these cards, cant really see the need if you have decent hardware

Syncroneyes · December 13th, 2007, 05:36 PM

Well, I guess that's that then....looks like Ageia will probably be out of business by...well...tomorrow?

screenager · December 13th, 2007, 05:51 PM

games dont even get a performance boost.
i classify it as usefull as the killerNIC network card.

Zamoldac · December 13th, 2007, 09:31 PM

just a waste of pci...power..money...