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i7 -2600k 4.8ghz
asus maximus iv extreme z -z68
8gigs gskill ripjaws
2 ssd raid 0
2 wd cb tb each raid 0
raptor 500g
2x 7970
haf x case for now waiting on cosmos 2 to come in stock
cpu is water cooled on custom loop with apogee x2 waterblock blackice 360 rad lanig d5 pump etc 3/8-5/8th tubing
im looking for a good physx card to help finish off the build the 2 7970s and the physx card will be water cooled at some point
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Thread: suggest a physx card
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2012-01-17, 02:10 AM #1The Patient
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suggest a physx card
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2012-01-17, 02:29 AM #2The Insane
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I didn't think ATI cards were PhysX compatible.
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2012-01-17, 02:30 AM #3The Lightbringer
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Even tho it is not impossible mixing Nvidia w/ AMD will inevitably cause massive problems specifically in the rare title that use's phsyx. Beyond that in all honesty it's quite clear you donot need a physx card nor do you know what would make a good one. However your headache but anything that was once a worthy gaming card 260 460 etc and up would be a decent physx card.
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2012-01-17, 02:35 AM #4The Insane
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Wouldn't anything short of a 570 or a 580 slow down his Xfire 7970s severely, incompatibility issues aside.
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2012-01-17, 03:22 AM #5Dreadlord
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Theres only a handful of games that even use Physx. Not worth it. Its nothing great anyways.
Originally Posted by Mwarren
Originally Posted by Neezh
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2012-01-17, 03:24 AM #6Pandaren Monk
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A GTX460 has enough power to chew through PhysX calculations and keep up with the HD 7970s. However, as has been mentioned, while running an AMD GPU alongside a PhysX processor can create a ton of incompatibilities and headaches.
Super casual.
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2012-01-17, 03:26 AM #7Pit Lord
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Considering your CPU, it's just not worth the hassle, and it sure as hell would never be worth getting a waterblock for a pure PhysX GPGPU. You could just passively cool it.
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2012-01-17, 03:28 AM #8Deleted
I don't think dedicated PhysiX cards even exist anymore (they used to, originally).
The only way to access PhysiX is via Nvidia GPUs and those are mutually exclusive from ATI cards.
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2012-01-17, 03:35 AM #9The Lightbringer
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Dedicated physx cards are just normal graphics card except they are only doing physx.
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2012-01-17, 03:37 AM #10Mechagnome
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The OP is asking what older Nvidia card he should use. There is a simple driver hack that enables you to use ATI cards for main display, and an Nvidia card as a hardware Physx card. I do not have a link at the moment, but I used to do just this. Originally Posted by Crowe
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2012-01-17, 03:57 AM #11The Lightbringer
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Even in an all Nvidia setup disabling physx will in most case's improve your performance and I have seen multiple benchmarks w/ SLI'd 580's w/ a 3rd 580 as a dedicated physx card actually performing worse than the 2 580's as is.
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2012-01-17, 04:21 AM #12The Patient
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after reading more into this and what you guys are saying i think im going to just grab a 3rd 7970 and call it done i do appreciate the advise
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