Dedicated PhysX card?

[sgtcool]

Ive seen some people use their old 500s /400s for a dedicated PhysX card

how does that work and is it worth it? does it improve performance much?(for games that use nvidia PhysX, farcry 4,metro etc.)

 

maybe my old 550Ti isnt useless anymore

[ZetZet]

how does that work and is it worth it?

physx card only calculates physics and no.

 

does it improve performance much?(for games that use nvidia PhysX, farcry 4,metro etc.)

only if your main card is shitty. if it's something like 670+++ 550ti might even slow it down.

[ShadowCaptain]

Ive seen some people use their old 500s /400s for a dedicated PhysX card

how does that work and is it worth it? does it improve performance much?(for games that use nvidia PhysX, farcry 4,metro etc.)

 

maybe my old 550Ti isnt useless anymore

 

really old cards can actually slow it down as the GPUs will have to wait for the slow physx card to keep up

 

Its not worth it for the 3 physx games around

[sgtcool]

really old cards can actually slow it down as the GPUs will have to wait for the slow physx card to keep up

 

Its not worth it for the 3 physx games around

physx card only calculates physics and no.

 

only if your main card is shitty. if it's something like 670+++ 550ti might even slow it down.

well i have a GTX 770 , soo i guess my old 550ti is useless

[sgtcool]

Not really. You could put it in the second slot and use it to drive extra monitors. Just won't be gaming on them.

yea ive been thinking about that

so i can easier acces internet on the other monitor

[D2ultima]

Yeah, unless you're using a kepler GTX series or better for PhysX, it's not really worth it right now to use a dedicated PhysX card. If you had like a 660Ti or a 670 and were thinking of using it in a shiny new 970 or something, I'd say go ahead. But nothing from Fermi below a 580 or so would make any benefit.

[MonkeyFace]

 

It's a bit old but the same rules apply today. 

[I/O]

Dedicated Physx LOL what is this Agiea Circa 2006 LOL