Graphics Card and Physx Question

[VortX]

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.

 

[VortX]

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]

I doubt you'd get £80 for a GTX now... possibly £60.

Well if I do sell it, it won't be until Christmas, by which time it will be worth even less lol, still never mind

 

[VortX]

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

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

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 lol

 

[VortX]

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!!!

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