Run 8800gts as physx card?

[Zarich]

Is it worth it to run the 8800gts along side the 670 as a dedicated physx card.. or is phsyx dying now?

 

[Cube]

for games no they don't use enough effects anyway.

 

[fightingfi]

i think theres only a handful of games even made to run or use it no point in bothering really.

 

[FM_Fixxxer]

NO, the 8800gt will bottleneck your 670. You'll get better performance with the 670 doing both.

 

[vjcsmoke]

If you already have the 8800, I'd test it out.

Compare the FPS you get with and without it.

Because even going back to 480 gtx, total FPS benefitted from having a discrete physx card to handle the effects.
I know that the 570 is basically the same as a 480 in terms of power.
I know a 670/680 is a step up, but how far up, I don't know personally.

See the following benchmarks with dedicated physx:
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/3..._480_with_galaxy_gtx_465_as_physx/index5.html

 

[agr964]

Having a dedicated PhysX card is fine and can help by offloading the physics processing from the main video card with the few games that support it, BUT that card has to be one that is up to the task. The 8800 is likely just a bit too slow to keep up with your 670, and would likely hurt frame rates a bit on those PhysX supported games since the 670 would have to wait for the 8800 to finish its processing before drawing the frame.

 

[Rizen]

Simple answer: no.