Nvidia Physics, SLI, and the ASRock 939 Dual SATA2

[hooflung]

Well the possibility to use a mismatch nvidia card for the upcomming SM 3.0 physics processing has me wondering.

It is currently possible to run Dual Graphics on the ASRock 939 Dual SATA 2 using the PCIe and the AGP 8x at the same time. Ofc you cannot do SLI but it does give you pure dual gaming accelleration if you use 2 monitors independantly.

Now... Dualcore CPUs even get better because you could multibox say EVE Online or City of Heroes on its own CPU affinity and give it dedicated GPU time. But let me not digress...

What I really wonder is if the Nvidia Drivers will support the mismatch GPU physics scheme in such a system where 2 individual cards are present but no SLI implementation.

I could use my 6800NU ( modded to a GT ) for graphics and a 6600 for the Physics for nominal cost. There is not too much space between the two when both cards are present so the PCI to me stands to be the one to have the cheap card.

I just thing its really neat that this *might* be an option.

 

[Gstanfor]

Given the (shameful IMO) way nVIDIA treated the ULi SLI issue (shameful because nVIDIA *owns* ULi and has nothing to lose by allowing SLi mode) I wouldn't get your hope up...

 

[santz]

sounds really cool, but just dont know what it meant! lol

i am thinking that those of us who have not played around with SLI or Crossfire or dual monitor setup or Dual core pcs, have no idea what you mean either!.but kudos to you of thinking about that.! and trying it out

someday though...................someday!

 

[hooflung]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
Given the (shameful IMO) way nVIDIA treated the ULi SLI issue (shameful because nVIDIA *owns* ULi and has nothing to lose by allowing SLi mode) I wouldn't get your hope up...

I am not talking about the ULI SLI mode. The 939 Dual SATA 2 has 2 completely seperate graphic buses coming from 2 independant controllers.

My question of the Nvidia SM 3.0 HavokFX implementation is will it be enabled ONLY by having SLI or will it run as long as you have 2 cards in the machine despite any bus architecture they might use.

 

[TanisHalfElven]

i have a similar question. is it possible to simply get a nvidia card (like 7600gs/gt) and use them for physics while an ati card does the graphics

 

[Gstanfor]

Yes, I know it does, but I don't believe nVIDIA will be any more willing to allow physics on such a setup than they were to allow SLi mode unfortunately. It's all completely ridiculous since the ULi chipsets are very nice to work with IMO, haven't yet found a ULi board that wasn't a pleasure to work on.