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SLI vs. Adding a PhysX Card

Post Date: 2010-07-05
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    Posted: 05 Jul 2010 at 11:11pm
I've never understood this, adding a second Yxxx series card for nVidia would make the second card just handle PhysX and have the main card handle just rendering, right? And I know some people have just added a lower end graphics card like a GT240 to just do that. So what exactly is the benefit of SLI over dedicating another video card for PhysX?
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SLI and Physx have nothing in common. Physx is just a gimmic used in a couple games to add some effects, SLI is scaling two or more GPU's together to act as one more powerful GPU.
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Ah, I see. ty for clearing that up.
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