Sheyster

Yes, you can. BUT, do you play any PhysX enabled games is the real question? Not too many of 'em.

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metallicamaster3

Willing to part with them ?

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Vlasov_581

8800GTS will work well for physX

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Roy Munson

Sweet. So I can pop in one of the 8800's alongside my GTX295?

Not willing to part with them just yet

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metallicamaster3

Sure can! You can only use one of them for PhysX, though. Meaning you'll still have an 8800 left over

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Roy Munson

Alpha as f**k. I'll be trying this out when I fly home to the UK.

RE: Spare 8800, it may be costly to post it stateside

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pcnuttie

How in the world can you hold 2 different video cards in 2 slots eventhough they are not sli'd ? Wouldn't that cause no boot ups? Don't they suppose to have same clocks and brand? I'm confused here.. i have a GTS 250 in my pc and a xfx 9800 gt in the box, i wonder if i can use both but i'm still considering getting the same card to go SLi anyways. i need to sell my xfx 9800 gt and 8600 gt since they are still brand new.

ericeod

I did this and had lower benchmarking results then using the GTX 295 on its own. I also tried a dedicated PhysX card, and found just running a GTX 295 and letting it run PhysX to work the best. But again, that was only with benchmarking, and I could see no visual difference in game play using dedicated PhysX over letting the GTX 295 handle it.

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Roy Munson

Ok. That's interesting, and point taken. I'll still try it anyway. Nothing to lose.

TBH I don't really dig benching, and in this example it'll prove even less than normal. I certainly don't expect it to hurt games, but I'm open to the possibility.

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Dilyn

You only need the same GPU if you're running in SLI.

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