Nickel

Hooray, people that leap before doing any research. A "PPU" is simply designed to process physics. Physics are getting more and more demanding. A few years ago "ragdoll" didn't even exist. This is the same kind of crap that people gave dedicated graphics cards when they were developed. A CPU is not designed for a specific gaming purpose all it does is communicate instructions from other parts of the computer. If it had to do all the processing from everything games would chug along at a steady 1 FPS. Most parts of a computer evolved from need that devoloped as applications got more demanding. An L1 or L2 cache used to be all the RAM a computer had. So, making a dedicated physics chip for gaming is no more stupid than a graphics card. I will agree though 300$ is pricey but hell, supply and demand.