Geforce 210 for Physx?

[ZXSpectrum]

Been looking about for a nvidia card to go with my 5770 for Physx but as the rest of my rig is gonna be watercooled i have been looking at passive cards. Seen a couple of 9600 but nothing decent price or passive. Then i came across a couple of GF210 cards that are passive.. Nice and cheap too.. Will they do the job?

 

[stulid]

I believe it doesnt have enough CUDA cores to make a worth while difference.

infact, I believe unless you get a 9600GT/8800GT it can actually slow down gaming.

 

[coupe69]

Will they do the job?

No, see stulids comments.

 

[straxusii]

9600GT dedicated is fine for physx, I wouldnt get anything less though

The 210, 220 and 240 are all awful and far worse than a 9600gt according to this site : http://emsai.net/reviews/gpu/

 

[Razor Time]

Sell your 5770 and get an nvidia card (gtx 460). Far less hassle and guaranteed to work out of the box.

 

[lay-z-boy]

9600GT dedicated is fine for physx, I wouldnt get anything less though

The 210, 220 and 240 are all awful and far worse than a 9600gt according to this site : http://emsai.net/reviews/gpu/

Wait, the 9600gt which has 64 cores and the gt240 has 96 cores yet is far worse?

The gt220 and 210 has 48 and 16 respectively so I'll agree there, no point in attempting to use them.

OP, GT240/GTS240 is the lowest I'd go. Apparently the sweetspot is the gts250(8800gt/9800gt(x)) and the gtx 260. Nether are cheap so I'd advise you not waste your time or money.

 

[straxusii]

Sell your 5770 and get an nvidia card (gtx 460). Far less hassle and guaranteed to work out of the box.

This^ if you are bothered by physx

 

[KillBoY_UK]

Its all about the shader cores and shader clock really once you have GDDR3 and 128bit bus on the chip doing the PhysX it seems.

There doesn’t seem to be that much of a difference between a 9600GT/GT220/GTS250 for purely PhysX looking at some benchmarks from toms hardware http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/batman-arkham-asylum,2465-8.html
BUT this was Nvidia gpu with Nvidia Physx.

Hardocp did smaller but similar benchmark a while back with ATI but with nvidia physx and i quote

"Without a GPU running PhysX, performance is just plan terrible. But with the 3rd-party patch to enable PhysX with an ATI GPU running graphics and the GTS 250 running PhysX, everything was smooth and quite playable"

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2009/09/22/amds_ati_radeon_hd_5870_video_card_review/.

Me personal I've tryed a 8800GT with ATI 5850 (as well a GTX280 with a 8800GT doing the Physx) and it works great but with one small issue that the 8800GT when using with the ATI 5850 always runs and full clocks with little or no power savings resulting it high idle temps and power usage (this is with the unlocked 257.15 beta driver) This might be the same in similar situations with a ATI card as the primary card doing the rendering and nvidia card doing just Physx but I don’t know as I don’t have other cards to test with.

For all the above reasons I would recommend a cheap GT240 (can be had for £60 or less) or GT220 if you really want to go a cheaper route.

Hope this helps

KillBoY_UK