If I was to buy a new graphics card...

[Greenlizard0]

Fair fair lads, keep 'em coming in.

I should have added that the power plug socket on my existing card is bent (I still don't know how it happened). The card itself works perfectly, apart from it being slow on the latest games it's not set a foot wrong. I'd have thought this may affect its resellability (sp), which is why I've been tempted to use it like that.

In terms of how much power it uses, I'd probably use e.g. Rivatuner to seriously underclock it for non gaming use and then churn it up if a game I want to play requires Physx.

Also - to those that did dedicate an older card to this, is it easy to setup? How is it done?

Still worth offloading the PhysX where you can if you have the card spare, as you will still get better min/max/avg fps than not using it.

I can't afford £150 mate.

 

[Ben M]

Yeah keep it as a physx card. It's a good way to heat your room... That said it is summer.

Just keep it as a spare.

 

[uv]

Also - to those that did dedicate an older card to this, is it easy to setup? How is it done?

It's very easy. It's just part of the nVidia driver set.

If you have an ATI card as your primary (under XP or Win7), then the nvidia card will automatically process the physx (it was a bit flakey to set up with early win7 drivers, but now it just works). If you have two nvidia cards, you can choose which setup to use in the nvidia control panel - ie which card you'd like to process physx

 

[Greenlizard0]

What about Vista 64?

 

[uv]

What about Vista 64?

If you use two nvidia cards, it'll be fine.

Vista's driver model doesn't support multiple graphics drivers though, so a mix of ATI and nVidia won't work under Vista.