[hethuns]

I currently have a 9800 gtx+ video card I want to know what would be the best option on a different video card just to support Phsyx. Ex: Can I put a 9600 gt w/ the 9800?:4-dontkno

 

[HardBoot]

Well... you can use your graphics card to also perform physics calculations, and you can use pretty much any 8000/9000/200 card to perform PhysX calculations...

But there isn't really any purpose to it since only a few games even support PhysX, Havock is the dominant physics engine and that's currently all done on the CPU.

 

[McNinja]

if you want to sli you need the exact same gpu to run beside the first one

 

[lazareth1]

From what ive read , you can have the setup you are thinking off. The last 2 release of graphics drivers have included the physix drivers which automatically shift all physix calcualtions to your graphics instead of your CPU.

If you got another card you can go into the nvidia control panel and configure it to use the second graphics card for physix.

Its a good idea but physix calculations dont really lumber down your graphics cards unlike the CPU so getting another card soley for physix is a waste of money when one card can handle both graphics and physix.

 

[McNinja]

a dedicated physics card is a waste of money

you can buy a really fast graphics like the one you have a 9800gt and it'll do all the physics you want.

a cpu takes care of AI and loading up a new area most of the workload is dumped on the graphics card since, well my grpahics card the GTX 260 has 192 processing cores and well my cpu has 2 cores.