GPU - PPU

[mjdranzer]

thanks in advance - i have a gigabyte geforce 6800GS and I would like to upgrade to geforce 8 when they come out next year. Insted of wasting the 6800 can i use it as a dedicated PPU? will nvidia provide driversfor this? - I have the MSI K8N Master2 FAR motherboard - with SLI. thus if this were possible i would be using one pcie slot for the geforce 8 and the other one for my geforce 6800 with will be processing physics insted of graphics.

 

[prozac26]

You probably won't need a dedicated card for physics calculations. I think nVidia will do something like that. Having a 7900GTX (for example) and a 6800GS for calculations, since ATI has that.

The 8 series will most likely have good physics calculation capabilities, so I don't think there will be a need for a physics card.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Simply put, nV hasn't announced anything yet, but we all pretty much think it will happen since the only limitation would be nV, not Havok or M$ or other MoBo makers.

 

[syn1kk]

there is no way to do what you are asking presently. and you are speculating about something htat has not had any news about =P!