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   #30. Posted at 09:41 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
AbRASiON
Dual monitor in Starcraft 2 would be nice :)
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#30, "My life for Aiur"... and a dual-monitor set up.  :  ssidbroadcast  (#31)  «
#30, starcraft 2, the game that never comes out :(  :  shank15217  (#43)  «
#30, The game that will be forever "for release"  :  pogsnet  (#44)  «

   #38. Posted at 07:13 AM on Oct 23rd 2008 Edit   Reply
sdack
Do not get me wrong, if at all am I being an Nvidia fanboy. Still, you could be using an Nvidia card for PhysX acceleration and an ATI card for the graphics. ;)
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#38, Not with Vista and its single video driver model.  :  Flying Fox  (#39)  «
#39, It would be possible if NV released a standalone PhysX dr...  :  MadManOriginal  (#42)  «

   #40. Posted at 09:09 AM on Oct 23rd 2008 Edit   Reply
coldpower27
Say I have a 9800 GX2, could I use the 9800 GX2 for graphics and an 8800 GT for PhysX? I have a Intel P35 motherboard however, would it work??
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#40, Probably yes.  :  Meadows  (#41)  «

   #4. Posted at 02:01 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
ColdMist
in full-screen 3D mode, only the "SLI focus display" will render the game, and the secondary display will go dark.

So, with a single card, I can play a game on 1 monitor, leaving the other monitor up for email or whatever, but in SLI I still can't have the second monitor showing the desktop/apps?

Ok, does Crossfire do something this stupid?

I'll probably wait until next year to buy another video card, but I want the option to add a second card, but I don't want to lose my second monitor while gaming!
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#4, maybe look into triple head solutions?  :  yogibbear  (#6)  «
#4, No, Crossfire does not have these bizarre limitations. I gue...  :  Forge  (#8)  «
#8, About the only reason to get Nvidia now is CUDA support f...  :  ColdMist  (#10)  «
#8, I agree with many of the points you make, but Nvidia has ...  :  SecretMaster  (#17)  «
#8, SLI came out before Crossfire.  :  BobbinThreadbare  (#18)  «
#18, I'm sure he's also part of the group that says the 795...  :  Silus  (#37)  «
#4, The way I read the post was that mode two is what you have b...  :  Dagwood  (#11)  «

   #34. Posted at 03:53 AM on Oct 23rd 2008 Edit   Reply
DancingWind
i have a question :D Can i Dedicate a gpu to physics and .. then go do the rendering on a radeon?
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#34, hmm better ask the nvidia finance guys  :  lycium  (#36)  «

   #5. Posted at 02:06 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
robspierre6
The big bang 2 is another big fart from N-vidia.It's all about supporting multiple displays in sli which has been offered by AMD for a long time now.And the whole physx on gpu thing is the most stupid idea N-vidia came up with.It's not gonna be applied any soon.We laready have gpus that are struggling in games with primitive texturing and geometry designs.Adding physx to that will make the things much worse.
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#5, Today's videocards often have power to spare. PhysX accelera...  :  Meadows  (#12)  «
#12, Er, not that I'm close to the situation, but I'm not sure...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#15)  «
#12, PHYSX ON GPU DOESN'T IMPROVE PERFORMANCE IDIOT.It decreae...  :  robspierre6  (#21)  «
#21, Easy there big fulla. Calm down with the insults  :  Sargent Duck  (#22)  «
#21, /bubblemouth  :  A_Pickle  (#23)  «
#21, Bye...........................  :  PRIME1  (#24)  «
#21, Medusa? Who started that trend, and more importantly, ...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#25)  «
#21, What's needed for PhysX is a cheap older generation GP...  :  MadManOriginal  (#27)  «
#21, Show me just one review that proves me wrong. Trust me...  :  Meadows  (#32)  «
#32, I think the empahasis is on MORE effects. TR has doe...  :  DancingWind  (#33)  «
#33, The point is, these numbers and facts were taken...  :  Meadows  (#35)  «

   #26. Posted at 06:55 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
Krogoth
Funny that TR's front page pictures show Forged Alliance. A game that is heavily CPU-bounded. SLI and CF is worse for it because they require significantly more CPU-overhead than single-card output.
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#26, It is CPU bound because all the Physics calculations are don...  :  Byte Storm  (#29)  «

   #28. Posted at 07:03 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
Damage
robspierre6 has been banned for repeated personal attacks and rudeness to other users. Read the rules and follow them please, folks.
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   #2. Posted at 01:50 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
Knuckler
What happened to OpenGL 3 support?
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#2, Heelllooooo Big Bang III!  :  Scrotos  (#19)  «
#19, i lol'd :)  :  ReAp3r-G  (#20)  «

   #16. Posted at 03:49 PM on Oct 22nd 2008, Edited at 03:49 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
SecretMaster
replying failure!
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   #7. Posted at 02:09 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
ssidbroadcast
That multi-but-not-SLi option provides for a nice Upgrade path, imo. Got that lousy 8600GTS? Buy a newer card and delegate the 8600 to PhysX. Nice.
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#7, That still leaves you to find a game that supports PhysX. Th...  :  Forge  (#9)  «
#9, Well Forge as Scott says in the podcast, that's the part ...  :  ssidbroadcast  (#14)  «

   #1. Posted at 01:45 PM on Oct 22nd 2008 Edit   Reply
Vasilyfav
Let's say you have a powerful triple-SLI combo, like 3xGTX260. Is there really a point of dedicating a whole GTX260 just for PhysX processing, instead of splitting its load over physics and graphics processing?

It just seems like any one of the cards that support triple-SLI in the first place would be way too powerful just for physics processing.
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#1, Obviously, it's for people who play online so that they can ...  :  OneArmedScissor  (#3)  «
#1, I believe the point is that you CAN evenly distribute the lo...  :  BobTheBacterium  (#13)  «
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