Will this card work for PhysX?

[Dragon05555]

Hello all, still getting my rig parts picked out.

Right now i plan on having x2 MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III's, and my friend told me he would sell me his old GPU from his PC that broke. The GPU still works fine though. He told me he "thinks" it is a Geforce 9600 GT, would this be a PhysX card?

 

[jonnyp11]

nope, the 9600gt is a dated pile that was never even a good gamer, and plus a lot of games use the cpu to do the physx so that it looks as good on both systems so it appeals to more people. and unless planning to max the game on 2+ monitors then all you need is 1 6950, and if you really want physx then add in a gtx460 i'd say, maybe a 550/550ti

 

[linkin]

nope, the 9600gt is a dated pile that was never even a good gamer, and plus a lot of games use the cpu to do the physx so that it looks as good on both systems so it appeals to more people. and unless planning to max the game on 2+ monitors then all you need is 1 6950, and if you really want physx then add in a gtx460 i'd say, maybe a 550/550ti

Back in the day it was a good card. Don't talk about things of which you have never experienced.

PhysX is selectable, you can either let the drivers auto-select, do it on the CPU, the GPU or the secondary PhysX card.

 

[claptonman]

nope, the 9600gt is a dated pile that was never even a good gamer, and plus a lot of games use the cpu to do the physx so that it looks as good on both systems so it appeals to more people. and unless planning to max the game on 2+ monitors then all you need is 1 6950, and if you really want physx then add in a gtx460 i'd say, maybe a 550/550ti

a 9600GT is just fine for physx. You don't need a $200+ card for it.

 

[wolfeking]

I thought you needed Nvidia mains for Physics cards to work?

And johnny you can select it in the Nvidia control panel. There are options for auto, CPU, or Nvidia GPU. I always left mine set to GPU, since I was on a weak i3 anyway.

 

[claptonman]

No, you can still use Physx's features with ATIs.

 

[wolfeking]

I never knew that. Thanks for the new info.

 

[BassAddict]

I just want to let everyone know that if you play a game that has physics enabled with a 9600 GT installed, the 9600 GT will bottleneck the other GPU(s). It would be best to grab a video card that the second poster listed (I believe it was jonny's post).

Or, if the game was optimized for physics with the processor, then there is no need for a physics card.

 

[FuryRosewood]

9600GT was a good card back in the day, i will agree to that, and will also agree that johnny needs to pipe down about stuff he HAS NOT OWNED.
But I digress, you would want something like a GTX560 as a Physx card to avoid a bottleneck...its like trying to run a 580GTX with a 8800GT as a Physx card...it will just get bogged down by the slower card, you need a 'close' match to make Physx work properly.

very good demonstartion from linus Techtips:

http://youtu.be/cbww3dhzK0M