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<img src="http://parcom.pro-networks.org/images/Asus.jpg" align="right">Asus Ageia PhysX card tested
By Fuad Abazovic
Monday 15 May 2006, 12:40

WE HAD THE privilege of playing with one of the first AGEIA Asus PhysX cards. Back in March 2006, I was among the first people to ever see the demos and even the live hardware. I received a phone call just pre Cebit/Games developers Conference time from a full-on PR manager telling me to fly to San Francisco to see something breathtaking.

I decided to go there totally not expecting anything much. Imagine my surprise when I actually saw something cool, something that I think has the potential to change to face of gaming. I saw the hardware up and running and I am still convinced that this is going to change to face of computer gaming. It won't be fast and easy but it will happen.

The biggest problem of this marchitecture is the lack of games. We got a single demo of a really cool game CellFactor: Combat Training something that can really show you what the game is made of and we tried Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter.

The Asus card in our test rig comes with 128MB of memory and is available in shops today. It is very easy to install it, you just plug it in a free PCI slot, connect Molex connector to power the card. You boot the machine, install the drivers, reboot and you are ready to rock and role-play.
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