I saw the pre-CES coverage. When does CES actually take place?
I hope somebody invents a GPU that makes your internets faster.
it's not a GPU but have you heard of the KillerNIC? It's supposed to be a NIC card with a built in hardware TCP/IP stack. It's supposed to offload the network functions from the CPU and supposedly makes tha internets faster. Except it costs 200 dollars and doesn't really do anything at all.
I saw the pre-CES coverage. When does CES actually take place?
I hope somebody invents a GPU that makes your internets faster.
it's not a GPU but have you heard of the KillerNIC? It's supposed to be a NIC card with a built in hardware TCP/IP stack. It's supposed to offload the network functions from the CPU and supposedly makes tha internets faster. Except it costs 200 dollars and doesn't really do anything at all.
yeah i've read up on BigFoot's KillerNIC.
"it costs 200 dollars and doesn't really do anything at all"
haha that's pretty much the 1 line version to the 10 page article I read.
I like the idea of the separate physics processor that some games are adopting now. All the physics calculations are off loaded to this card so the CPU can spend it's resources on other things. I doubt it will ever take off, though, considering that all game developers are stupidly giving up on pc gaming.
oh man those Ageia processors are gonna do big things in the video and graphics productions and the CAD market. just imagine rendering 3D videos using a physx processor for the movements and the GPU for the textures.
That'd be cool. I've also read lately that ray tracing (what the movie people use for 3d non-real-time video rendering) may make a move to the real-time gaming world. The hardware's getting faster and faster so it may be a reality.
