What to do with my GTX 275?

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Erik Umali

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Hi guys!

So I just replaced my GTX 275 with a GTX 970 (which is awesome by the way, way quieter and produces way less heat at 37°C at idle vs my 275's 47°C to 50°C at idle).

Now my 275 is just sitting there, doing nothing. Should I make it do something like folding@home, or should I just put it to rest? I'm open to any suggestion backed up by your reason.

Thank you for your time!
 
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Roland Of Gilead


you can set the PhysX in the NVidia control panel. You can set it to CPU (so cpu does all the calculations, which most people would do), leaving the GPU to do all the rendering. You can also set it so the GPU does the PhysX calculations, but by doing that your GPU doesn't run at full pelt, because a portion of the processing power is doing the PhysX. Or as outlined you can use a secondary NVidia card to do the PhysX work, therefore leaving the CPU and GPU to run at there best. It saves a few cycles on the CPU, and allows the GPU to run as it's meant to, and also you still get the benefit of having the PhysX running too...
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Which is probably what I would do, but I should do what I said you should do, if that makes sense
 
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Roland Of Gilead

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well, if you play any games which use PhysX, then you can use the GTX275 as a dedicated PhysX card, and it takes the load off the CPU. Its easily done in the Nvidia Driver. Suppose it depends on what mobo you have, and if your PSU can take the extra load, although it's my understanding that when the card doing the PhysX work is active, it doesn't draw anywhere near full power, so it's not that much of an ask on the PSU. Anyway, good luck with the 970 :)
 
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Erik Umali

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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

I'll probably hide it for now, but I'll consider using it as a physx card. I just need to determine how much power my system is using, and how much the extra card will consume.

Thanks again.

Though if anyone has any other suggestions, I'll still consider them.
 
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Roland Of Gilead

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you can set the PhysX in the NVidia control panel. You can set it to CPU (so cpu does all the calculations, which most people would do), leaving the GPU to do all the rendering. You can also set it so the GPU does the PhysX calculations, but by doing that your GPU doesn't run at full pelt, because a portion of the processing power is doing the PhysX. Or as outlined you can use a secondary NVidia card to do the PhysX work, therefore leaving the CPU and GPU to run at there best. It saves a few cycles on the CPU, and allows the GPU to run as it's meant to, and also you still get the benefit of having the PhysX running too. It's a good solution. PhysX is interesting, but only a handful of games use it. But with that said, those games do look slightly better (not graphically as such) in that you can see flags waving and those types of effects much clearer with zero loss of CPU/GPU processing power. An example would be Mirrors Edge, which has some fantastic effects for flags waving and cloth sway. Also the likes of Batman Arkham, Metro 2033 make use of PhysX too, so if you play these games it worth trying the PhysX setup.

I had a GTX260 alongside my 560ti (yeah I know, very dated now :( ) and it does help if you want to maintain frames rates without incurring a performance hit for turning on PhysX on the CPU/GPU Primary.

Have fun :)
 
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