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Graphics Card and Physx Question

VortX

VortX

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Cut the the chase...

I have a 8800GTX in my system at the moment.

If I was to but say.. a 295GTX, or even 2 of them and run the im SLI, can I use my old 8800GTX as a dedicated physx card along side them?

To save getting rid of card... or is it better that i just sell if for like 50 quid or however much they are worth these days?

Thanks.
 
At a guess I'd say that 1x 295GTX could handle rendering and physx almost as well if not as well on its own as assisted by an 8800GTX - atleast in any games out now or the foreseable future. Let alone having 2x 295GTX.
 
Okay guys thanks :) well ill be selling my old one when the time comes to it then, shame really considering i payed like 360 when i brought it now 2 years later its worth nothing :( lol
 
VortX said:
Okay guys thanks :) well ill be selling my old one when the time comes to it then, shame really considering i payed like 360 when i brought it now 2 years later its worth nothing :( lol
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welcome to the wonderful world of computing lol, but i would think you should get at least £60 for your old card, i got £40 each for my 8800gt's (paid over £400 for the pair) could possably have got a little more but wanted to sell asap so sold them to a couple of mates:cool:

or stick with your plan of running it as a physx card but you will need a beefy psu to run all that i would have thought and if you do get 2 gtx295 might be worth taking out shares in you lecky company :D
 
razer1978 said:
welcome to the wonderful world of computing lol, but i would think you should get at least £60 for your old card, i got £40 each for my 8800gt's (paid over £400 for the pair) could possably have got a little more but wanted to sell asap so sold them to a couple of mates:cool:

or stick with your plan of running it as a physx card but you will need a beefy psu to run all that i would have thought and if you do get 2 gtx295 might be worth taking out shares in you lecky company :D
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LOL! XD actually... fair point I only just realised as well last night, if i was to keep the card.. its a hell of a lot of PSU power just for a physx card lol nah ill just sell it :P lol
 
VortX said:
Okay guys thanks :) well ill be selling my old one when the time comes to it then, shame really considering i payed like 360 when i brought it now 2 years later its worth nothing :( lol
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Don't complain.. The 8800GTX has been superb value for money and to be honest, it will run for another 12 months + going by recent games. I doubt this will change until the next gen consoles arrive which pretty much dictates the games/hardware market nowadays. I've never had a card for 18 months let alone over two years which illustrates this fact.. Until you actually have tio start lowering setting to play decent frame rates then I'd leave it.
 
Hey there. Im a newby at all this and I was wondering what you were meaning by having a seperate card for phys x? I currently have 2 x 8800gtx cards in my build and I was wondering what the advantages were of having a seperate card for this physx thing!

All newbs have to start somewhere!!!
 
ChrisLandin said:
Hey there. Im a newby at all this and I was wondering what you were meaning by having a seperate card for phys x? I currently have 2 x 8800gtx cards in my build and I was wondering what the advantages were of having a seperate card for this physx thing!

All newbs have to start somewhere!!!
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You can have 1 card for physx and 1 card for graphics, or 2 for graphics 1 for physx etc. It basically turns a graphics card into a dedicated physx card much like the old agiea cards.

However in your case, having 1 graphics card and 1 physx card, seriously DONT BOTHER lol, it doesn't make 'that much' of a difference with pyhsx dedicated cards in terms of frame rate. And compared to the extra frame rate you will get from running your cards in SLI is MUCH more compared to the few extra frames you may get from having a dedicated physx card.

Not to mention the few games that actually support physx.

The only reason I was asking is because I don't like the idea of simply chucking my card away and was seeing if it could still be used.

But in your situation just stick with an SLI setup and enable Physx to run normally = best performance :)
 
Cheers for the advice. So im right in thinking then that the 2 x 260 gtx cards ive just ordered will work in sli and if I wanted to I could also use an old 8800gtx as a physx card?? If this is the case would i bridge all 3 cards with the sli connector??
 
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