Originally posted by: bob4432
can anybody point me in the direction of this thing actually doing anything? if you are able to buy this you are probably running a 2x7800gtx in sli with a x2 4800 & 2GB ram. i doubt this would help. somebody prove me wrong....
I will try my best bob.
First of all, it's not necessary that you need all that stuff... i mean this card will be $150 starting.... and granted at the beginning it probably won't do much at all (because most software won't utilize it) but that's not THAT much money... you gotta admit.
Second of all... and most important.... the physics in games will greatly increase because of this specific reason:
CPU can do everything but is not REALLY good at anything
GPU can only handle graphics but it does so very well
Therefore, the cpu is left handling certain physics calculations (for example if a box breaks it can just fall apart the same exact way each time and you don't have to really calculate anything. However, if it breaks in relation to where you shot it .... where it breaks and how it falls apart will have to be calculated every single time.) A PPU would be able to handle these calculations especially well because it would be optimized in doing so. Therefore, if before it wasn't worthit for software developers to make your surroundings very interactive or impressive because it would require only the most expensive (very small portion of the market) computers, there will be a much greater reason to do so with these PPUs
Everything I just said may be wrong ... but i hope that helps you think about it in a different way.
edit: I highly recommend giving This a read to help you understand what i mean