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Should I use a dedicated physx card or is a single card just as good?

ScionRay
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honestly man i tried this out last week, i had 2 660tis and i upgraded to a titan, so i tested the titan on 3d mark by its self and then i used one of the 660ti as a physx card thinking since its Kepler it should be fine. the 2 cards performed worse than the single titan. if you ave a newer nvidia card it will have no benefit only use it is you have an amd card

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I was wondering if I should use my old 9800gtx for a dedicated physx on my new PC build or does it really matter with the more powerful cards that are on the market today? 

 

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almost the same as the thread i started. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/22880-gtx-560ti-as-dedicated-physx-card/#entry289378

 

this might help in general

 
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Honestly, if you have the card already, sure.

 

but so few titles actually support PhysX, there's not much point in it. 

 

That was what I kept running in to when I was building my latest system is is it worth it to have one of these cards in there when there is a tiny number of games even using the tech and I'm only going to play, MAYBE one of them.

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honestly man i tried this out last week, i had 2 660tis and i upgraded to a titan, so i tested the titan on 3d mark by its self and then i used one of the 660ti as a physx card thinking since its Kepler it should be fine. the 2 cards performed worse than the single titan. if you ave a newer nvidia card it will have no benefit only use it is you have an amd card

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I personally have a GTX 680, and it's the same as felixbearpig here, I did not benefit from using an other card as dedicated Physx card, but it's true that if your new card is an AMD, which could be a wise choice (since they offer some AAA titles with the cards) you'll need a dedicated Physx card.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_hardware-accelerated_PhysX_support

 

 

For reference.

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Would like to thank you guys for all the feed back. I have come to the conclusion that I will be making 2 pc's this up incoming year with taxes a Nvidia gaming and Amd home media.  When I start the builds I will post them here :) 

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