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About Me

Alright, basic intro:

I was born in 1984, which means I grew up just a tad late to be an Atari front runner (still got one and played the shit outta it) but I did get to grow up with Nintendo. I've bought every Nintendo console on release day (Wii included, 32 hours outside of Wal-mart).

I'm a "hardcore gamer" but I detest the term and I won't fit into any damn mold! I LOVE retro games, and I think 90% of the shit on the game market right now isn't worth the time or money I'd have to spend to burn those shitty studios that make these games to the ground.

I hate the fact that the FPS genre has become so flooded it's hard to find anything good and not WWII, and I think the last good FPS was Half-life 2 (HL2+Source+Bioshock WTF PWN ALL).

I've been PC gaming since I was 3

Shit I've bought:

Nintendo - NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, N64, Game Boy Color, GB Advance (+SP), Virtual Boy (fun ass system imo), Gamecube, GB Micro (was a gift, I prolly wouldn't have bought one), DS, DS Lite, Wii.

Sony - Playstation, Playstation 2 (3 of em so far), PSone. Gonna buy a PS3 only if it's under $300, and a PSP when it's cheaper.

M$ - Winblows 3.1 up to Vista Ultimate (I bit the bullet and got Vista when I built my latest PC), Xbox. Gonna buy a 360 when the revamped 65nm version is down under $300.

The first computer I gamed on:
Name: IBM Personal Computer 5150
Processor: Intel 8088 @ 4.77 MHz (A beast!)
Memory: 64 KiB
Hard Drive: Ehhh... Nope.
Network card: Hehe... nope.
Keyboard: "Compared to the keyboards of other small computers, the IBM PC keyboard is the Rolls-Royce." Real quote from a review back in the day!
Monitor: 8" CGA graphic mode; 320 x 200 resolution.

My Current PC:
MB: ASUS P5N32-E NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI
Proc: Intel Quad Core Q6600
RAM: 4Gbs of Patriot Extreme Performance DDR2 800
VidCard: 2x (SLI'ed) EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB

My Backup Computer:
MB: MSI K8T Neo,
Proc: AMD64 2100+ w/ 1mb L2 Cache
RAM: 2Gb DDR 400
VidCard: Nvidia Geforce 7800 GS, 512 Mb

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GeForce 8 GPUs will gain PhysX processing, world domination soon to follow! Nyteshade | 3:04 PM on 02.15.2008 8 comments

We all knew when Nvidia announced their plans to buy Ageia that we would see on-board physics processing video cards very soon, but I don't think anyone but Nvidia employees expected it would come this soon. Answering reporter's questions, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has made some very interesting comments that pertain not only to future cards, but also the current 8 series that is running in many computers right now. Nvidia is, at this very moment, in the process of encoding the PhysX software into Nvidia's very own CUDA. While that probably means nothing to the normal user, CUDA is Nvida's programming interface that was made for developers, allowing for custom made general purpose applications. The great part about CUDA is that it has already been implemented in all of the 8 Series cards. So what does that mean for your average 8 series card user? That with only a small software download, all 8 series cards will be able to do PhysX processing with their current GPUs. This also means that with a little programming and bandwidth, Nvidia will be able to put PhysX capability in more computers in one day, than Ageia was able too in it's entire career. Even more promising is that our current GPUs (graphics processor on video cards) and PPUs (physics processor on PhysX cards) and nearly identical in design and in their calculations (both are calculated using floating point number matrices). This means that there is every chance that current gen cards will have no problem doing both graphical and physics processing. Strait from the horses mouth... "We're working toward the physics-engine-to-CUDA port as we speak. And we intend to throw a lot of resources at it. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if it helps our GPU sales even in advance of [the port's completion]. The reason is, [it's] just gonna be a software download. Every single GPU that is CUDA-enabled will be able to run the physics engine when it comes. . . . Every one of our GeForce 8-series GPUs runs CUDA." Even more intriguing to me, and the other SLI users out there who's second card sits mostly useless is what he had to say next... Our expectation is that this is gonna encourage people to buy even better GPUs. It might—and probably will—encourage people to buy a second GPU for their SLI slot. Finally, maybe my second 8800 will actually have some real use, this can't come soon enough in my books. From TechReport