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post #11 of 26
9/7/12 at 1:24pm
You could also get a cheap nvidian card, 460 or something add it to your mobo and use that for phx with your current amd card.

This forum has instructions on how to do it.
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9/7/12 at 1:26pm
Exactly, for the 200 and extra 150, for $350, you can definitely get a gtx 580 or a 660ti
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post #13 of 26
9/7/12 at 6:18pm
Keep your 7870, try BL2 with CPU PhysX. If it's not good enough for you, then consider your upgrade options. No need in spending money when you don't need to.
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post #14 of 26
9/7/12 at 8:19pm
I was actually wondering about exactly the same question today. So I pulled out some of my old GPUs and sadly found out that ROG 9800gt and Alpha Dog 8800gt are dead sad-smiley-002.gif But 8800GTS 512mb was working perfectly fine.

I ran both cards at stock speed, while the E5530 is overclocked to 3.5ghz with HT enabled.

After running Batman AA bench, I found out that game did not really benefit from adding 8800GTS, but it did take significant load off 560Ti and it ran much cooler at 57 FPS average. Running the bench on CPU only, however, destroyed the frame rates, 17 FPS average.

Next I ran Cryostasis TechDemo, and this time around adding 8800GTS did make a difference bringing average FPS from 57.3 to 63. Running the bench on CPU again was horrible, 13.6 FPS average.

Even if assuming that Physx has improved in CPU department with Borderlands 2, it will not go well. So unfortunately, you will have to get a dedicated Physx GPU to pair up with 7850. Ideally you should replace 7850 with Nvidia.
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post #15 of 26
9/7/12 at 8:26pm
You can buy like a GTS 450 and run it in conjunction with your AMD card. There's a guide here on OCN on how to do it.
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9/7/12 at 8:40pm
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You can buy like a GTS 450 and run it in conjunction with your AMD card. There's a guide here on OCN on how to do it.

Speaking of GTS 450, I found this:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GTS450-PCIE-512-PB&cat=VCD
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9/7/12 at 8:45pm
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Speaking of GTS 450, I found this:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=GTS450-PCIE-512-PB&cat=VCD

Holy hell O.O
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9/7/12 at 8:50pm
Physx Falls flat on its face if you use CPU processing for it.

You would be far better off going green.
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You might have missed the point of my question, I know I can run BL2 on my 7870, I want to run it with PhysX ON, which if im not mistaken Borderlands 1 didnt have.


EDIT : Nevermind. Looks like physix wont be optimized to run on cpus anytime soon. nVidia would be dumb to give away one of their proprietary feature.
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9/7/12 at 9:07pm
I play gw2 at 1080i.i get from 55 to 83 fps set in 29.97 hertz.i could max everything if I had a 7850.setting up for 1080 i is very different.main issue?Microsoft various delay which can be higher the 80 ms or user start to to notice.yes it w I'll look as good in 46 inch screen
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