Are there still physx cards out there?

Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.

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2 Nvidia video cards. Something like a GTX 285 + 8600 or 9600 GT.

Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.

organic_machine

I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff

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Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.

dackchaar

I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?

organic_machine

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[QUOTE="organic_machine"]

Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.

organic_machine

I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?

exactly, that's his point, but I suppose that they wouldn't be entirely worthless, considering that you card could be freed up from the load of calculating the physics, which probably doesn't affect it too much

exactly, that's his point, but I suppose that they wouldn't be entirely worthless, considering that you card could be freed up from the load of calculating the physics, which probably doesn't affect it too much

dackchaar

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[QUOTE="organic_machine"]

Well, physx capability is now on pretty much every single current nVidia GPU, so yes.

organic_machine

I think he meant dedicated physx cards, and I'm sure there are still some on ebay and stuff

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but aren't the dedicated cards worthless if he has an nVidia card?

Well, not really.

Having one card doing just graphics and one doing just physics, will perform better than one card trying to do graphics and physics at the same time.

Of course, if you have another PCI-E 16x slot, you can get a cheap card like a 9600GSO or something, and use that solely as a PhysX card. But if I recall correctly, the AGEIA PhysX cards were standard PCI, which would be suitable for people with no available PCI-E 16x slots.

Having one card doing just graphics and one doing just physics, will perform better than one card trying to do graphics and physics at the same time.

Of course, if you have another PCI-E 16x slot, you can get a cheap card like a 9600GSO or something, and use that solely as a PhysX card. But if I recall correctly, the AGEIA PhysX cards were standard PCI, which would be suitable for people with no available PCI-E 16x slots.

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