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Dedicated PhysX Card

lescarpio
By lescarpio
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Hey all,

 

I know this may be an exhausted topic, or completely irrelevant to most, but I have an old GTX 560 lying around not being very useful. I'm currently using a GTX 680. I was wondering if I'd see any performance boosts in PhysX enabled games (Borderlands 2, Batman: AC) if I were to install the 560 as a dedicated PhysX card? I have an available PCIe slot (MSI Z77A-G65), and a 750W PSU. I do not want to SLi another 680, and I'm just curious because I ran into an article (very old one, talking about GTX 4xx and 8xxxx series cards) and found it interesting, talking about having dedicated PhysX cards.

 

Thanks!

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The most commonly used dedicated PhysX cards are the 260 and 460 so yea you should be fine.

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Test it out , from my findings I had a titan with 660ti as physx card and it performed worse

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No don't do it, sometimes it can perform worse.

If he already has both cards it wont hurt anything. 

 

Go ahead and try it and if it works then YAY and if it doesnt take it apart again :p

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No don't do it, sometimes it can perform worse.

 

a 560 isn't going to bottleneck a 680 ....

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