BFG Ageia PhysX review

The BFG Bundle

BFG time ! Okay first off, that's cool packaging. Once opening the box you'll see your standard share of accessories. Next to the card itself you'll receive a power cable splitter, a driver CD, a demo CD, and a quick install guide.

BFG as always needs to live up to it's reputation, and therefore you'll receive a life-time warranty on the card with 24/7 technical support. Great stuff. What was disappointing is that not one game has been included that supports PPU acceleration. That is not a good idea, not even a game-demo in the form of CellFactor or a PPU enhanced version of Bet on Soldier or something.

Operating Systems: I need to address this as you are limited. Windows XP Pro, Home, or Media Center ... that's what you can use. If you use another variant of Windows or even Linux then you are in bad luck as there's currently no driver support for them at the time of writing.

It's also very important to know that there is a second important requirement, you need to have a graphics card that fully supports DX9 and Shader Model 2.0 or higher.

Let's examine some photo's.

Cool packaging.

The Physics card as presented comes with 128 MB (128-bit) gDDR3 memory. Initially there were 256Mb models planned but it just made no difference other then the price being driven up so that was scrapped.