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Is it worth adding in my GTX460 ?

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I have a 7950 Sapphire in place ruuning nice.

Is it worth adding in a spare GTX 460 ?

Will the drivers cause issues ?

Is it really worth it ?
 
why not sell it?

they probably still go for a decent amount 2nd hand.

dno if it's gonna work running an AMD + nvidia card in 1 board XD
 
It would do no harm to add it in for PhysX games. Tommy is the man for hybrids and that card will power PhysX games nicely :)
 
Nobody knows if it's worth now.
I mean all tests have been done while GTX 480/HD5870 was on the top and one and only "d'oh" benchmark was Mafia 2.
Now 7950 cards are far stronger, AMD drivers are more optimised, so nobody repeated tests with decent cards. BTW, what games do you play ?

Bw, You must be aware you'd need modified (not original = legal) drivers.

Read this :)
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=358734
 
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@op,

Just thought about it, it's not really worth it tbh, you might as well just post it over to me since I'm down to a single 7950 atm. :D
 
My friend had 7950 coupled with 9800 which gave bigger score in benchmarks and it worked just fine.
Give it a try! ;)
 
wolvers said:
Would a gt610 or 620 be fast enough for physx?
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No chance, 6 series your looking at a 640 or more, expensive.:(

I wouldn't recommend spending more than £40 for the pleasure either, it's more viable/sensible if you have an older gpu sitting about or cba selling it.

@chrisgt,

The 9800GT will cause chopiness with your 7970, the 460-perfect.

Up to the 69 series the 9800 was perfectly fine, coupled with my 7970 however, and fps spikes too much unless you set physX to low mostly in the newer titles, I presume the 70 is going to fast for the slower 9800.
 
I'd buy something from the mm, but really it needs to be passively cooled. Maybe I'll look for something cheap and do some ghetto cooling mods. :-D

Is it possible to install the NV driver and select the physx on CPU option, or does there have to be a GPU installed?
 
wolvers said:
I'd buy something from the mm, but really it needs to be passively cooled. Maybe I'll look for something cheap and do some ghetto cooling mods. :-D
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My 9800 has had the cooler ripped off, an original AC Twin Turbo mounted on it without the fans/shroud.

It doesn't go full throttle on the gpu as it was only working for PhysX or surfing/watching movies through the TV in second display mode, letting the AMD gpu run at normal 1 screen clocks.

wolvers said:
Is it possible to install the NV driver and select the physx on CPU option, or does there have to be a GPU installed?
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Pointless unless you have a PhysX enabled gpu in the system, the PhysX package is all you need to run it off the cpu.
 
Yes it's definitely worth doing as I have done it numerous times myself.

Physx is a very nice thing when it's all up and running and I wouldn't want to be without it given that I do play a few Physx titles on the regs.

Batman (both) are pretty amazing and Borderlands 2 looks positively bald without it. A 460 uses little power (you can experiment by down clocking it and running Batman benchmarks) and doesn't make a lot of noise so it's firmly a hand in the air on the "yes" side from me :)

Edit. And Mafia 2 rawx too. I love the heat warp from the heaters on top of the buildings, really adds to the game.
 
tommybhoy said:
Pointless unless you have a PhysX enabled gpu in the system, the PhysX package is all you need to run it off the cpu.
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The reason I ask that is because some physx games have effects that are enabled with just the CPU run physx package. PS2 is one.
 
Hmm Physx absolutely killed my CPU when I ran it from that.

If you have a card kicking around why not just bung it in and try it out?
 
wolvers said:
Would a gt610 or 620 be fast enough for physx?

I'm bored, and looking for some hardware to play with! :p
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I strongly doubt it. I remember in Batman AA they were saying you needed a min 9800 GTX dedicated for medium and a GTX 260 for high (and that was stand alone dedicated).

Mafia II's Physx really eats at performance so I would not use anything less than a GTX 460 dedicated tbh. I don't know how the 610 and 620 compare to the 460 but my guess is they don't.

To give you an idea (as I suspect they are around equal) I used to run 5770 in CFX with a GT 240 for Physx.

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And it simply couldn't keep up. I did a lot of research on it and in the end realised that the Physx PPU responds to not only the clock speed but also the CUDA cores.

I would stick my neck out and say that BL2 doesn't hit your performance as much as Mafia II as the effects in that are so strong and prominent that it just destroys performance. But either way I don't think a 610 or 620 would cut it. I think you're looking at a 650 for around £100 to even start to get where you want to be.
 
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