dedicated physics card

[wingnuttzz]

hi guys

i got a nvidia 8600 gts (i think) off a mate today for helping out build his PC (and he didn't need it anymore) and i was thinking about putting it in my PC as a dedicated physics card

would this work and how would i go about setting it up??

thanks
Grant (wingnuttzz)

 

[wingnuttzz]

oOo, that easy

will give it a shot over the weekend

and i now there is pretty much nothing that supports PhysX, but i'm a big Unreal Tournament fan and i have the card, so why not, lol

 

[wingnuttzz]

Just slap it in the 2nd/spare PCI-e port, boot up install drivers, open control panel and in nvidia physx->settings make sure GeForce Physx is ticked on the right of this option a button should appear with the option to select which card to use for physx.

just tried this, and i can't see any physX opition, have you got a screen shot or something please???

 

[wingnuttzz]

yay, i've got it working, at least its set-up to work anyway

installed the new beta drivers (180.10) and ran window's updates (missing outing the 9800gtx/gtx+ opition as that reverts the drivers to 178.93 or something old).
got it set-up to have the physX running on the 8600.

 

[wingnuttzz]

turns out i'm using a 8600GT with 256mb of DDR3 ram, and tbh, i doubt i or you will notice any difference by dedicating it to physics, but if you can why not...

will be running vantage later, see if my score has gone up since adding the 8600gt

 

[wingnuttzz]

will be running vantage later, see if my score has gone up since adding the 8600gt

well just ran vantage, and my score has dropped from 7800 to 7400

i have changed my drivers to the latest beta (180.24) but i don't believe that is the problem, i believe its because the physX just aren;t as fast on the 8600GT as they can be on my primary graphic card - 9800GTX

i noticed through out most tests (GPU one), my FPS was the same, if not slightly better, but on the second CPU one, my OPS used to be around 120, this time it was only 59, and i believe this is because of the 8600GT

bit undecided whether to take the card out of the pc, or just leave it there

 

[wingnuttzz]

i think the minimum someone said was a 8600GT (preferably an S model) but tbh, i don't know.

know, i am going to agree with the above statement, as i have seen no performance gain at all, but i got the card for free and i might aswell give it a shot if i have it lying spare.

I wouldn't go out and buy a card to use for dedicated physics, but just get the fastest physX enabled card i could