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Dedicated PhysX Card

~REALiTY

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Hi Guys,

Currently got an ASUS 480 GTX and i was wondering should i get a dedicated PhysX card to improve FPS and if so which one?

I have a 700W Power Supply and i dont wanna spend too much on a card which will act just for physx

Thanks in advance!
 
Crysis, Crysis Warhead, Metro 2033, BFBC2, Crysis 2 (Beta atm) and all sorts of others, i have 2 screens and i usually put my monitor as my TV and play at 1080p
 
Of those games, only Metro 2033 actually features PhysX support, and even then your 480 should be able to handle it pretty well.
 
Well with everything at the highest settings the average FPS is around 30 which is good :D but if a lot goes on especially with lighting it tends to slow down to around 23 which is not very often, and i thought if i got this my fps may improve and give me a good standing in the long run with PhysX and not run into a lot of FPS problems?
 
Thats what i thought of doing, not paying a lot of it, just get a cheap card to run PhysX, anyone else think of any cheap cards to do this?
 
~REALiTY said:
Well with everything at the highest settings the average FPS is around 30 which is good :D but if a lot goes on especially with lighting it tends to slow down to around 23 which is not very often, and i thought if i got this my fps may improve and give me a good standing in the long run with PhysX and not run into a lot of FPS problems?
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You're far better off adding a second 480 or putting funds towards a second 480. Which will make a difference in metro.

If you check my sig I have a 460 along my 480's. I use it for encoding 99% of the time, in the few physx titles I have I wasn't really impressed and if I had bought it purely for physx I would be unhappy I wasted my hard earned cash.
 
Oh right, well i would have to buy an SLi capable mobo first due to my mobo only having one PCIE slot :'(

Ill see what other new games come out first and then decide :D
 
Erm, what? 480s are power hungry, but they aren't that power hungry.

I can't see what you'd hope to gain from a dedicated PhysX in the handful of games that actually can actually use hardware for it, when your card already does PhysX.

If you want a boost, do what people have said and SLI your 480.
 
MikeHiow said:
Erm, what? 480s are power hungry, but they aren't that power hungry.
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They are that power hungry. It is probably the single most power hungry card out there except dual gpu's on a single PCB.

Underload a SLI GTX480 will draw 851W:

"A special mention goes out to the GTX 480 SLI here, which at 851W under load is the greatest power draw we have ever seen for a pair of GPUs"

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2977/...x-470-6-months-late-was-it-worth-the-wait-/19

That's without them overclocked. It would be stupid to run them both on a 700W PSU so if you're going to order another GTX480 then pay the premium on top of that for a new PSU.

And a thing to note a PSU maybe rated at 700W but that doesn't mean it'll work exactly to 700W powerdraw it will likely be less.

My 600W Be Quiet! PSU can't handle my GTX480 when I do volt increases on a overclocked sandybridge system it just shutsdown but my 700W OCZ psu can. I use my Be Quiet still as it's a better psu and I just run the GTX480 overclocked without voltmods it's fast enough for me.
 
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