| I hope separate add-in, standalone physics boards die a quick and very ugly death. The last thing we need is yet another option for the retarded consumer to have to worry about when buying his PC from Dell or whoever else. PC's are complicated enough as it stands, the last thing we need is yet another 200 dollar required add-in board.
My hope is that they integrate this sort of functionality onto all graphics boards (IE: don't have the GPU doing the physics, but a separate discrete chip on the same board). That way the marketplace remains largely the same. The cheapest, low end boards that come without the PPU on board can use the GPU to do the physics, much like integrated chipsets use the CPU to bring everything to a halt. | 