Dedicated GPU for Physics

[airhendrix13]

So I have an 8800GTS right now and plan on upgrading to a GTX 260, I want to know when dedicated GPU physics will become reality. I have a 680i mobo with 3 PCI-E slots (1 of the being a 4x slot) that is waiting for this technology!

I remember hearing about being able to put an old video card in the x4 slot and have that work as a dedicated PPU.

Anybody know when and/or if this will happen?

Edited for Stupidity

 

[aka1nas]

You can do it with the leaked Beta PhysX driver already and Forceware 177.x. It lets you select which card to run PhysX on. What I don't think is available yet is having two cards in SLI and a 3rd card of a different model do PhysX, as I think the display driver will still freak out in that config.

 

[airhendrix13]

Originally posted by: aka1nas
You can do it with the leaked Beta PhysX driver already and Forceware 177.x. It lets you select which card to run PhysX on. What I don't think is available yet is having two cards in SLI and a 3rd card of a different model do PhysX, as I think the display driver will still freak out in that config.

Awesome! Have you seen any benchmarks with that type of setup?

 

[Cutthroat]

There is a new review that uses an extra gfx card for PhysX at Guru3D.

 

[airhendrix13]

Originally posted by: Cutthroat
There is a new review that uses an extra gfx card for PhysX at Guru3D.

Very interesting article. Thanks for the link!