If you're gonna use this as a dedicated PhysX card then what the hell must you be using as your main card?
GTX460 FTW!
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If you're gonna use this as a dedicated PhysX card then what the hell must you be using as your main card?
KING_OF_SAND
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well i was using a 5870 till it fried. i am ordering a R5870 lightning from msi and going to OC it to 1ghz core, hopefully 1.2ghz core and 1300 memory. and a 460 is perfect for a physx card for modern physX games. with my 9600xxx as a physx card in games like Metro 2033 and mafia II is used 100% and is still not enough. a overclockable 460 like an EVGA card (a perfect on all levels OC card for Nvidia), would make a GREAT physX card, and would be future proof. at stock clocks it would be just a little tiny bit more than i will need, and as physx apps become more intensive i can OC the piss out of this thing to get what i want.
when i was using my 470 as a dedicated physx card it was using 60% of the card most of the time in metro 2033 and it jumped to 80% on a few occasions.
when i was using my 470 as a dedicated physx card it was using 60% of the card most of the time in metro 2033 and it jumped to 80% on a few occasions.
KING_OF_SAND
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now that i think of it and i see the add to my right, i might get the n460 hawk by MSI. it will match my 5870 lightning.
alienware
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Hmm. I thought that a 240 was the same as a 9800GT but apparently not. It's supposedly the same as a 9600GT..
Any way, in a phenom 9950 machine earlier with Mafia II with physx on medium, shadows on medium and everything else on max I averaged 24FPS and maxed at 35 *just* with the 240.
Once it's only doing physx and I have my faster CPU and 5770s in there it should go faster.. So maybe that American willy has it wrong?*
*I refer to that silly sod who did the review of 460 GTX SLI with 24gb of ram
Any way, in a phenom 9950 machine earlier with Mafia II with physx on medium, shadows on medium and everything else on max I averaged 24FPS and maxed at 35 *just* with the 240.
Once it's only doing physx and I have my faster CPU and 5770s in there it should go faster.. So maybe that American willy has it wrong?*
*I refer to that silly sod who did the review of 460 GTX SLI with 24gb of ram
A 460 just for PhysX is a bit overkill imo.
You should just get a 9800GT and overclock it.
alienware
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Well Batman reccs a 9800GTX *top*.
My 8800 Ultra absolutely spat it out like lightning but alas it's too big and too hot and noisy to even be considered
9800GT does seem a very good choice IMO. It's slim too. Only thing is the whiny fan.
EDIT. 8800GTS are five and ten a penny on Ebay atm. I've seen them for £40, XFX, brand spanking new.
My 8800 Ultra absolutely spat it out like lightning but alas it's too big and too hot and noisy to even be considered
9800GT does seem a very good choice IMO. It's slim too. Only thing is the whiny fan.
EDIT. 8800GTS are five and ten a penny on Ebay atm. I've seen them for £40, XFX, brand spanking new.
KING_OF_SAND
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i have tried 8800GTSs and my 9600GT is OCed to 9800specs, they all hit 100% when i blast the PhysX settings in games like Mafia II and Metro 2033. i the only card that will run Physx perfectly that i have available to me is my GTX 470 and even that was hitting 80% but usually stays around 30% and 50% in physx based games, (the newer ones). so i need a card much sronger than the 8800 and the 9800, and the 460 is reasonably priced, and can be greatly OCed for future hardcore physx apps.
