Dedicated PhysX card

So, I have a GTX 570 sitting in my computer room just collecting dust at the moment until I build my wifes computer, which probably wont be any time in the near future. So, with that being said. Would it be worth my time to use the GTX 570 as a dedicated physX card rather than letting it collect dust? Personally, I love PhysX, but hate the performance hit.

With that being said, even if I were just to be using it as a dedicated PhysX card, will I need to plug an HDMI or VGA, or DVI cable into it?

What is your current gpu you are using now? if it is greater then a GTX 660 its pointless to use 570 as a physx card.

I have a GTX 770, and IMO, it's not pointless at all. I can go from 30-40 FPS in Assassin's Creed, but when I shoot a gun drop to 20 or less just from the PhysX alone. So I would say it was worth it in that regard.

all physx games ive used seen barely any difference with gtx 760 vs 560 dedicated, haven't tried AC4 though, you can try it out and see if it helps. but AC4 is very cpu bound not feeding the gpu the data it needs. since it only uses two cores and not very well to begin with

If you don't have another pc to take advantage of the 570 then do it , Physx does a pretty huge load on the card most of times , but you won't notice a huge difference . and you don't need to plug in any connector to it , just put it in the PCI-E slot and set it as the Physx handler in NVidia control panel and you are good to go.

BTW : you are using 570 for Physx and i am stuck with my 9600gt aghhhhhhhhhhh , haha.

Haha, thanks man. Will do this tomorrow then. I would prefer to use a lower card for the PhysX since it has lower power consumption more than likely, but if my PSU can push it, I suppose there is no harm, no foul. Sounds like a plan. :D

If you're using a remotely decent card as your primary chances are you'd get better physx performance without the 9600.

You could give it a go, but it's possible you might not see much, if any, of a performance increase.

i'd run benchmarks for yourself and make sure its worth it. that card will suck extra watts even if your not playing a game so think about that...

i've never bothered testing with one of my old nvidia cards because there really are so few games i've played with physx... and the ones i did play ran good enough it didn't cross my mind. Only game i really saw awful physics performance was Alice, and the game itself was a bad port so i just dealt with it.

if you have a power meter, that'd be also a good thing to test to see how much more power your pc will be using, if its over 100 watts more, its totally not worth it.

In my case I think it would be something that I only did with an Nvidia PhysX game. I would unplug the PCI express plugs from the card when there is no PhsyX game being played to convserve power. I'll give it a whirl tonight when black flag is done downloading.