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So I have a spare slot on my mobo, my board only supports 2way sli so can I add a physical card as it's not actually sli,

Also does having a dedicated physx card help fps or anything ?

Currently I have it set to cpu in the nvdia control panel,

And lastly if they do help what card should I get ?

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Personally dont even think its worth it, that 980Ti is a beast on its own, and can handle it without a PhysX card. I dont actually think youre gonna notice a difference.

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Currently I have it set to cpu in the nvdia control panel,

 

Why did you do that? I would expect that to be kinda bad for performance. I can't imagine a pair of 980 Ti's are terribly stressed out by PhysX, even at 4K.

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Why did you do that? I would expect that to be kinda bad for performance. I can't imagine a pair of 980 Ti's are terribly stressed out by PhysX, even at 4K.

because I'm running at144hz and wanted as much gpu power to hit the higher frames as possible so I thought it would be better on the cpu as that has more headroom

Should I change it ?

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Why do you have PhysX set to the CPU?

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Why do you have PhysX set to the CPU?

Because I want my gpus to have more performance for fps

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Because I want my gpus to have more performance for fps

But your CPU is taking more of a hit. Can you verify you're gaining performance in games by setting it to the CPU?

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But your CPU is taking more of a hit. Can you verify you're gaining performance in games by setting it to the CPU?

My cpu doesn't hit 100 percent usage even with it set to cpu, where as my cards are at 100 all of the time

So I assumed if I left it on the gpus there would be a drop in performance

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because I'm running at144hz and wanted as much gpu power to hit the higher frames as possible so I thought it would be better on the cpu as that has more headroom

Should I change it ?

 

My expectation would be that your overall performance is poorer with the CPU handling PhysX rather than the video cards. If your results are different, that's great, but counter-intuitive. Having your PhysX effects handled by the CPU is basically "AMD mode."

 

Really dumb question, but just to be sure: you are actually playing games with PhysX support, and with those effects turned on and/or at max, right? It won't make any difference at all in most games.

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My expectation would be that your overall performance is poorer with the CPU handling PhysX rather than the video cards. If your results are different, that's great, but counter-intuitive. Having your PhysX effects handled by the CPU is basically "AMD mode."

Really dumb question, but just to be sure: you are actually playing games with PhysX support, and with those effects turned on and/or at max, right? It won't make any difference at all in most games.

Borderlands games bro, but cpu is that tank u think it just deals with it lol

Il swap it to my cards tho when I'm back home

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