and would you think that with a 850W PSU be enough for SLI'd 275's plus a GT 220?? or would i have to find like a 950W?:infinity:
nope its allot weaker gpu.. 220gt info of nv site: http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_220_us.html 9800gt
Mmm... yea but i never really thought that like just for physx you needed something special... i mean just look at the Ageia boards
9800 should work alright. Some folks even recommend as much as say a 9600 series for PhysX. As far as the PSU goes, it's better to have the extra headroom if you can swing it. I'm actually thinking of getting a kilowatt psu when I go GTX3xx so that when I go to add more stuff, I'll have the extra resources available.
I would not go with anything slower than a 8800gt for physx...with the prices right now, like the used market for example, there is no reason to go with anything slower. Regards
The 850W PSU should be enough. I would suggest a card that does not need additional 6-pin PCIe power. The GT 220 does not, nor does some 9600 GT and 9800 GT (look for ones withOUT the 6-pin). PhysX needs at minimum 32 CUDA cores and 256MB video RAM. I don't know how much of an improvement more cores, more RAM or higher MHz gives for PhysX. Hmmm, maybe that would be a good article for a hardware site? Any takers? Any existing articles? The GT 220 has 48 cores. If I were to go this route, I would just see what card is on sale at the time I'm buying.
I have asked that from many websites and nobody wants to do it. I am just getting my GTX 295 today and I do have the 9800gtx+ for physx and the GTX280 that I am replacing.... maybe I could do it but I have to ship the 280 today to its new owner so it depends on my job...if I go home late then I won't have time to do any testing ....
yea if anyone might know of a place that has done a test witht eh 220 using physx compared to a 9600/9800 that be nice since the card isnt really a gaming card i kinda expected Hilbert to do a physx test not actual gaming in the review :3eyes:
gtx275 sli (2 use render and physx) is much faster than gtx275 sli (render only) + gt220 as physx. physx -> 9800gt is 2x faster than gt220! I don't have doubt!!
Probably so although it depends if the two 275 are being push to their limits then obviously any help they can get is going to be an improvement.