Soldato
Im not sure if its possible or not but I have a 285GTX as my main card, and I have a spare 9600gt sitting in my drawer, could I use the 9600gt as a dedicated physx card? If so how do you go about it?
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Using a seperate video card for physx?
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yeah ive got a spare slot, board is sli capable too so there both 16x i think, running win 7 atm aswell, do I need to use the sli bridge?
No don't use the SLI bridge (prolly won't fit anyhow).
EDIT: The SLI bridge is to communicate rendering data between the GPUs, PhysX works at an earlier stage and replaces the CPU in calculating where objects would be on teh screen before handing it over to the GPU to render said objects at their respective positions.
EDIT: The SLI bridge is to communicate rendering data between the GPUs, PhysX works at an earlier stage and replaces the CPU in calculating where objects would be on teh screen before handing it over to the GPU to render said objects at their respective positions.
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Soldato
No need for SLI bride, just stick the 9600 in.
Then make sure the 9600 is selected for physx in the nvidia control panel
Then make sure the 9600 is selected for physx in the nvidia control panel
That does help heh forgot to mention that stage :S
cool thanks for the info 
I probably wont notice the difference as Im not sure ive got any physx games but its just sitting there doing noting
I probably wont notice the difference as Im not sure ive got any physx games but its just sitting there doing noting
Soldato
cool thanks for the info
And soon it'll be doing nothing, but using power and costing you electricity
There's not a single game a GTX285 can't handle the physx on, adding a 9600 will give you a few extra fps in a few games, whilst using power, generating heat, and adding to your leccy bill
And soon it'll be doing nothing, but using power and costing you electricity
There's not a single game a GTX285 can't handle the physx on, adding a 9600 will give you a few extra fps in a few games, whilst using power, generating heat, and adding to your leccy bill
Winter is coming!
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Depends if your board is dual x16, 1x16+1x8 or anything else...
If you have either of those two, you're good to go. You'll actually lose speed if you have a board that has "either 1x16 or 2x8"... I have no idea if this happens for SLi, but I know in my crossfire board (although i currently just have one nVidia GTX260 in it) has a setup like that. Crossfire would actually slow me down in a way, as far as I know.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone know if there is a benefit to having 2 ATi graphics cards running Crossfire in 2 PCIe x6 @ x8 bandwidth slots?
If you have either of those two, you're good to go. You'll actually lose speed if you have a board that has "either 1x16 or 2x8"... I have no idea if this happens for SLi, but I know in my crossfire board (although i currently just have one nVidia GTX260 in it) has a setup like that. Crossfire would actually slow me down in a way, as far as I know.
Sorry to hijack the thread, but does anyone know if there is a benefit to having 2 ATi graphics cards running Crossfire in 2 PCIe x6 @ x8 bandwidth slots?