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[Afrika Korps]

I was browising Dell with a new comoy in mind, and I see above the vid card "Physics Accelerator
The AGEIA ® PhysX ® physics accelerator is a radical breakthrough in the way you can experience the virtual environment. Experience real-time physically-based environments, action and game play that would be impossible without dedicated hardware acceleration. Note: Games must be designed to take advantage of the PhysX accelerator."

Will this acutally help run some games? I.E. BF2?

Oh BTW, on what setting can I run BF2 on with this set up?

Pentium® D Processor 930 with Dual Core Technology (3GHz, 800FSB)

256MB nVidia GeForce 7900 GS

Integrated Sound Blaster®Audigy™ HD Software Edition

2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs

Edited by Afrika Korps, 28 July 2006 - 10:41 AM.

[Ster]

No games currently available take advantage of it yet.

[TheL3gend]

Actually there are a few, and more to come.

http://www.ageia.com/physx/titles.html

But for right now, a PPU would not help much. Infact, there are know to be complications with certain games when you have this.

So basically... in the near future, these will be very useful. But for now you can just save your money.

Edit: And as far as that system is concerned, it looks pretty good. But I would say that the CPU is probably the weakest component.

[Ster]

As far as those "utilizing" the technology, no, they're not. They're just pointing out that the game's use a compatible version of Havok. As of yet, not commercial game "utilizes" the technology to give any form of performance boost.

[AnonymousFlash]

Yea, just save your cash for now. No games really take advantage of it yet.

As for the system, the processor is the weak point, but you could probably run almost maxed anyway. I just have a P4 3.2ghz and its not really a bottleneck, and with 2 gigs of RAM, and a 7900, you're good to go.

My specs:
Pentium 4 HT 3.2ghz
Nvidia Geforce 6800 vanilla
1.5 gb of DDR2

I can run on medium-high, so you shouldn't have a problem.

Edited by AnonymousFlash, 30 July 2006 - 09:31 AM.

[Wasabi®]

That system should easily be able to run BF2 maxed out. I run it maxed on

Athlon 64 3500
Geforce 6800GT
2 GB RAM