A while ago I upgraded one of my old computer's graphics card to a Nvidia GTX 460 and replaced the old GT 220. I recently dug up the old 220 and I was curious if there would be any advantage to plugging it into my PC even though I couldn't SLI it. I only use 1 monitor so I don't need it for that. Could I configure it to help my 460 draw some graphics or maybe handle the Anti-aliasing?
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Okay, thanks for the replies. I didn't think it would work anyway but I was not sure.
If you had a weaker card, you could possibly see gains from using the 220 as a dedicated physx card, but the one you have now is too powerful to see gains from that unfortunately.
The 460 with a 560Ti performs on-par with either the 560Ti or CPU handling physx. It works, but there is no gain and even for much more resource intensive programs/games it doesn't improve it enough to warrant the power/heat.
The 460 with a 560Ti performs on-par with either the 560Ti or CPU handling physx. It works, but there is no gain and even for much more resource intensive programs/games it doesn't improve it enough to warrant the power/heat.
Thanks for the help!
The dedicated physx thing only provides a gain with cards in the same generation. With others it will show slowdown.
Not even say a 460 for PhysX with a 560 Ti?
The 460 with a 560Ti performs on-par with either the 560Ti or CPU handling physx. It works, but there is no gain and even for much more resource intensive programs/games it doesn't improve it enough to warrant the power/heat.
I guess you learn a bit every day...