Best single slot PhysX card?

[HAL9000]

Hey guys, any idea which of these would be the best dedicated PhysX card?

9800GT DDR3 512GB
GT240 DDR3 512GB

maybe a Quadro card of somekind?

Any other suggestions welcome, thanks in advance.

 

[happy medium]

single slot gts450.

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20696-sparkle-rolls-out-single-slot-gts-450

 

[HAL9000]

single slot gts450.

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20696-sparkle-rolls-out-single-slot-gts-450

Good find, but:

Unfortunately, the price or the availability date haven't been announced.

Any other suggestions, power isnt really a concern, but given the choice between "green" and externally powered I'm going green, you know save the earth and that crap.

 

[toyota]

Good find, but:


Any other suggestions, power isnt really a concern, but given the choice between "green" and externally powered I'm going green, you know save the earth and that crap.

so you draw the line at having a slightly more power hungry card for physx but don't mind buying an extra card for physx in the first place? lol. not to mention that it will only consume that extra power when playing the 2 or 3 games that you probably own that actually even use hardware physx. what does the rest of your system look like since mother earth is so important???

 

[HAL9000]

so you draw the line at having a slightly more power hungry card for physx but don't mind buying an extra card for physx in the first place? lol. not to mention that it will only consume that extra power when playing the 2 or 3 games that you probably own that even use hardware physx. what does the rest of your system look like since mother earth is so important???

Lol IDGAS about mother earth really, just joking, I'm running low on cables that I can run from my PSU so Ideally I'd go for something without external power.

 

[toyota]

Lol IDGAS about mother earth really, just joking, I'm running low on cables that I can run from my PSU so Ideally I'd go for something without external power.

well out of curiosity what does the rest of your pc look like though? a gt240 may be just fine but it really depends on what you are using for a gpu to determine what level of physx card would be best.

 

[HAL9000]

well out of curiosity what does the rest of your pc look like though? a gt240 may be just fine but it really depends on what you are using for a gpu to determine what level of physx card would be best.

2 x Quad Xeon X5355's @3.2ghz - 1.313v FSB@1600mhz
12GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Kingston @ 800Mhz
Sapphire 5870 1GB + XFX 5970 2GB Crossfirex 850/1200
SATA III 6GB/s + USB 3.0 Asus U3S6
Bluetooth 2.1 + Wlan 802.11n
3Gb/s Ethernet
2 x 64GB OCZ Vertex 2E SSD's RAID 0 - Mac OS X 10.6.4
60GB Crucial C300 6GB/s - Windows 7 Pro x64
1.5TB WD Green
1.0TB WD Green
Liteon Blu-Ray R/W x12
1000w PSU
5.25" 450 PSU

 

[happy medium]

I'd get a single slot 9800gt with 112 sp's vs a gt240 with only 96 sp's.

70$ AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-489-_-Product

 

[HAL9000]

I'd get a single slot 9800gt with 112 sp's vs a gt240 with only 96 sp's.

70$ AR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-489-_-Product

This is exactly what I was thinking, thanks

 

[toyota]

2 x Quad Xeon X5355's @3.2ghz - 1.313v FSB@1600mhz
12GB DDR2 FB-DIMM Kingston @ 800Mhz
Sapphire 5870 1GB + XFX 5970 2GB Crossfirex 850/1200
SATA III 6GB/s + USB 3.0 Asus U3S6
Bluetooth 2.1 + Wlan 802.11n
3Gb/s Ethernet
2 x 64GB OCZ Vertex 2E SSD's RAID 0 - Mac OS X 10.6.4
60GB Crucial C300 6GB/s - Windows 7 Pro x64
1.5TB WD Green
1.0TB WD Green
Liteon Blu-Ray R/W x12
1000w PSU
5.25" 450 PSU

that better be one robust 12v rail on that 1000 watt psu because all of that could easily use 850 watts or more under full load.

 

[HAL9000]

that better be one robust 12v rail on that 1000 watt psu because all of that could easily use 850 watts or more under full load.

Yeah I'm thinking of down grading from a 5970 to another 5870 as it's just more of a pain than it's worth tbh