Got a new card - keep existing one for PhysX?

[MeatLoaf]

Ok got myself a nice EVGA 8800GTX today and its in and working great. Is it worth retaining my 8800GS 384Mb to use a dedicated physx card?

And is it right that it dosent work properly in Vista unless you have dual monitors?

 

[MeatLoaf]

Anyone?

 

[reflux]

There's no driver support for load allocation yet, and even when it does emerge I question how good it will be or whether it will be worth bothering with.

 

[Strife212]

I say keep it, the old card doesn't have much resale value so may as well put it to use

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Yeah you can use the 8800 GS as a PhysX card, but not sure what performance will be like with it doing PhysX and thats correct about Vista, you need dual screens otherwise it won't work.

 

[jarvo1]

Yeah keep it and see how it goes, it should give you a nice little boost in PhysX enabled games.

If your monitor has dual inputs then you can just use the 2nd input instead of a whole other monitor.

Keep an eye out on the R180 driver release rumoured to be coming this month too, the new driver might just eliminate the need for a 2nd display for a PhysX card, here's hoping anyway.....

 

[MeatLoaf]

Well ive been doing a bit of reading on the subject and it seems that plugging a DVI-DSUB dongle into the 2nd card will be enough to fool vista that you have a monitor attched to the card.

Cant see how it would work, but i'll try it tomorrow