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Drogo   06-07-2009 at 08:40:29 AM

Cheers all!

I'm slowly building a system. I have the evga nForce 750i SLI FTW board. I have one GTX295 and one 9800gt I would like to use.... The 295 for the usual things, and the 9800gt for PhysX. What's giving me pause, and causing me to write here, is this from the manual:

For Single Mode, insert the VGA card into the "PCIE X16_1" VGA slot. The "PCIE X16_2" VGA slot will become inactive.

Here's what I was going to do: the 295 in PCIE X16_1 slot and the 9800gt in PCIE X16_2 slot. Is there any problem in doing this?

Thanks for helping an old man :)

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megamanx00   06-07-2009 at 08:51:57 AM
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Basically when there is one card in the first PCI-E slot, it gets the full 16x lanes. When a card is in the second slot the chipset splits those lanes into two sets of 8 lanes and each slot gets 8x bandwidth.

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mindless728   06-07-2009 at 03:07:39 PM
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really, you could run the physX on the GTX295 without the 9800GT in there at all and it would probably work fine in games that support physX

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