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Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:43 PM (permalink)
I was wondering if anybody had any info about using a dedicated physx card with a gtx 470. I upgraded from a 8800 gt sli setup to the the evga 470 and was trying to set up one of the 8800's as a physx card. with the official drivers I cant change what to run physx on the 8800 shows up in device manager as not working correctly becouse of the fermi drivers. when i experimented around a bit with other drivers that support the 8800 gt i can dedicate it to the 8800 but it seems to destroy my performance in physx games does any body know if it really is worth it to run a dedicated physx card with a 400 series or do u think its just a driver issue at the moment ??? 
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    boredgunner
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    Re:another physx card question Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:48 PM (permalink)
    It sounds like a driver issue.  A GTX 295 has more stream processing cores than a GTX 470 (480 total vs 448), yet it benefits from a dedicated PhysX card.  My friend got a performance increase in PhysX applications when using one GTX 295 and a 9800GT for PhysX.  If only Fermi drivers supported older cards.  I'm probably going to have to pick up a cheap NVIDIA DX11 GPU and dedicate it to PhysX, but I'll see if my GTX 260 helps.


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    Re:another physx card question Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:52 PM (permalink)
    I ran a GTS250 with my 470, no issues with the .41 drivers.
    Uninstall the drivers, restart, let windows install the generic drivers, restart and install the .41 driver.

    As far as performance goes, a 96sp card is the lowest I would go for a PPU.
    The 470 does good on its own, my GTS250 gave it a slight boost in physx performance.
    So IMO an 8800GT might not be of any benefit.
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    Re:another physx card question Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:55 PM (permalink)
    Well, an 8800GT has 112 stream processing cores.  Only 16 less than your GTS 250.  


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    Re:another physx card question Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:59 PM (permalink)
    oops I was thinking it had 96.
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    Re:another physx card question Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:15 PM (permalink)
    ya i have done that to but like i say when i get it dedicated to my 8800 gt it seems my performance is worse then my 470 doing all the work what games have u tested to see that perfomance increase with your 250 ?  
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