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Something that occured to me the other night.
When you turn your computer on, the first thing that is initialised is the video card, therefore if you wanted to do a virus check without the possibility of a BIOS virus , or a MBR virus, the best place to do it from is pre POST. IE have a virus checker on your Video card.
Not gaming related, but it could appeal to business users (although I dont turn our computers off much).
I think the problem of putting too much data like phisics onto the video card is the lack of bandwidth of todays AGP implimentation. AGP 8X might fix that though.
Whats something that doesnt need lots of raw data fed over the AGP, but needs lots of calculation done to it, then its output is relatively small?
SETI anybody?
How about hardware monitoring. Hve a few temp and voltage sensors on the video card, then some sort of output on the case, or an audible alarm if pre sets are reached. You could put a thermal-couple on each hard drive, your mobo chipset, your CPU, P/S and of course the video card. This would be more usefull to business users. I dont like having too many apps open on the systray, so being able to get that info through powerdesk would be cool.
I think modems, NICs, sound, etc would suck up too much AGP bandwidth to make it worthwile, but I might be wrong.
Any other ideas?
Ali
When you turn your computer on, the first thing that is initialised is the video card, therefore if you wanted to do a virus check without the possibility of a BIOS virus , or a MBR virus, the best place to do it from is pre POST. IE have a virus checker on your Video card.
Not gaming related, but it could appeal to business users (although I dont turn our computers off much).
I think the problem of putting too much data like phisics onto the video card is the lack of bandwidth of todays AGP implimentation. AGP 8X might fix that though.
Whats something that doesnt need lots of raw data fed over the AGP, but needs lots of calculation done to it, then its output is relatively small?
SETI anybody?
How about hardware monitoring. Hve a few temp and voltage sensors on the video card, then some sort of output on the case, or an audible alarm if pre sets are reached. You could put a thermal-couple on each hard drive, your mobo chipset, your CPU, P/S and of course the video card. This would be more usefull to business users. I dont like having too many apps open on the systray, so being able to get that info through powerdesk would be cool.
I think modems, NICs, sound, etc would suck up too much AGP bandwidth to make it worthwile, but I might be wrong.
Any other ideas?
Ali
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