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So I recently upgraded my graphics card from a PNY GTX 1060 3GB to an EVGA GTX 1070ti ftw ultra silent. The old one works fine, nothing wrong with it, but its just laying around now and I have some extra PCI-e x16 slots availible.... and being the power hungry idiot that I am, I wanna use that GTX 1060 to my advantage. I heard something about using it as a physx card. is that viable? How does one go about this? Would I see any performance increase at all?

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hardly any game even use PhysX, so it's a waste of money unless you play those games.

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Well, what games do you play that use phys-x.

If you have no idea, then you should ditch the idea altogether.

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

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4 hours ago, fasauceome said:

Well, what games do you play that use phys-x.

If you have no idea, then you should ditch the idea altogether.

I have no idea... lol. But would there be any way I can make use of the card? Anyone have any creative Ideas to incorporate it into the same system as my 1070ti?

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6 minutes ago, Brentar said:

So I recently upgraded my graphics card from a PNY GTX 1060 3GB to an EVGA GTX 1070ti ftw ultra silent. The old one works fine, nothing wrong with it, but its just laying around now and I have some extra PCI-e x16 slots availible.... and being the power hungry idiot that I am, I wanna use that GTX 1060 to my advantage. I heard something about using it as a physx card. is that viable? How does one go about this? Would I see any performance increase at all?

Not much reason having a PhysX card. Modern GPUs are able to handle PhysX + everything else perfectly fine. 

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3 minutes ago, Brentar said:

I have no idea... lol. But would there be any way I can make use of the card? Anyone have any creative Ideas to incorporate it into the same system as my 1070ti?

You can meme with a program called Different SLI Auto that lets you do some fun things with dual GPU, but it won't really help you. You can also have a mining rig Just kidding that's not profitable anymore.

Do you render stuff in 3D software? CUDA acceleration would be awesome with dual GPU. 

I WILL find your ITX build thread, and I WILL recommend the SIlverstone Sugo SG13B

 

Primary PC:

i7 8086k - EVGA Z370 Classified K - G.Skill Trident Z RGB - WD SN750 - Jedi Order Titan Xp - Hyper 212 Black (with RGB Riing flair) - EVGA G3 650W - dual booting Windows 11 and Fedora Linux - Black and green theme, Razer brainwashed me.

Draws 400 watts under max load, for reference.

 

PSU tier list

How many watts do I need?

PSU misconceptions, protections explained, group reg is bad

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