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I have an old 8600GT collecting dust for quite sometimes, I'm planning to use it for PhysX card, or if it's not sufficient, I'm also looking for an used 8800GT down the road.
But if I'm not mistaken, the UD3P supports x16+x4, so it's perfect for ATi+physX, but I also remeber that if the second x16 slot is used, then the USB3.0/SATA3 is going to be performing slower. So either way, if the 2nd card+USB3.0/SATA3 all share the same PCIe lane, will all of them suffer from a noticiable performance drop? yet, this should not affect my 4890 running at x16, correct?
Should I go this route or just forget about the PhysX and save the brandwidth for the furture usage of USB3.0/SATA3? (I was gonna say future-proof, but I kind of hate this term
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But if I'm not mistaken, the UD3P supports x16+x4, so it's perfect for ATi+physX, but I also remeber that if the second x16 slot is used, then the USB3.0/SATA3 is going to be performing slower. So either way, if the 2nd card+USB3.0/SATA3 all share the same PCIe lane, will all of them suffer from a noticiable performance drop? yet, this should not affect my 4890 running at x16, correct?
Should I go this route or just forget about the PhysX and save the brandwidth for the furture usage of USB3.0/SATA3? (I was gonna say future-proof, but I kind of hate this term
