Silly question.. Can you use the i72600k's GPU for Physx or does it have to be an Nvidia chip Have a spare 580GTX and was going to use that, unless ....... No need for sarky comments, just a yes you can or no you can't will suffice Thanks Chaps & Chapettes
Would you count "l will take that SPARE 580 off your hands" as sarky? As I am really willing to help clear some desk space for you. I'm that nice.
Even if you COULD, the Intel graphic solution won't be able to handle it. Well it would be CPU based really, as Intel graphic solution is still depending on the CPU, and doesn't have a dedicated processor like Nvidia's or AMD. While it will work, you are better off purchasing a 25-35$ Nvidia GPU for this. You are most likely going to get more performance over Intel's.. IF it worked on Intel.
The problem with PhysX is the fact that it's hobbled for CPUs. If not it would be great. The best alternative? Grab a GT430 or something similar and offload physX on that. But it's debatable if that's even worth it. Just SLI those 580s!
and theres 23 titles which use gpu accerlated physx 18 of them are games http://physxinfo.com/data/vreview.html and only 2 released in the last 18 months.
I still have one of the first physx cards in my desk draw. a BFG Aegia card (think thats how its spelt)
For a few of the newer games an 8800GT would give you a decrease, Fermi cores are much more efficient with these calculations. I've done a few benchmarks to prove it with my old 9800GTX+ slotted alongside my current 560TI. I know Arkham Asylum would dynamically drop GPU Physx calculations on the fly if it didn't have enough shaders to calculate them on, I'd expect Arkham City to do the same. Having powerful enough Physx card would make for smoother gameplay so long as the main graphics card can still maintain full PCIe bandwidth or has a lot of memory so it doesn't need to swap data and textures to and from off the system memory. I used to find it handy to divide my graphics power in my old SLI system if I needed to dedicate one of the cards to Physx calculations. I'm not saying that a 580 is the ideal solution but if you already have one with a PSU able to handle it (not that Physx calculations draw much power compared to the main GPU) and you play games with PhysX enough then it might be worth putting it in.
I think Mafia II was one of the games that slowed down when I tried my 9800GTX+ alongside my 560TI Edit: either that or the minor improvement wasn't worth taking up half my PCIe bandwidth for.
I have a Asus GeneZ68 with a slightly oc'd 2600k around 4.2 ghtz Will be picking up a 690 today and of the 580, Using a 1000w modular PSU (think its a Corsair one, I forget) SSD and two mechanical HDD, a Pump (laing D5vario) and 9 fans I am assuming the 1000w will be sufficient for running the two GPU's ..ah well if its not I'll see later I guess huh
You might find it's possible to configure the card to use 1 of the gpu's on the 690 for Physx when you need to.