Using two different gfx cards

[itsunix]

Hello, i current am using a geforce gtx nvidia 260 card


and i just bought

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-125-367&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&PurchaseMark=&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&IsFeedbackTab=true&Page=4#scrollFullInfo

I know cannot use them to SLI... but perhaps can i use my 260 card to run ONLY for the physx it has and use the new card for everything else? or/and use the old card to only run one monitor and use the new card only for my primary display? Will i get improvements for doing this or will it be negative?

 

[jyjjy]

Is there are reason you bought the GTX 550 Ti? It's not particularly better than the GTX 260, other than being DX11 compatible I guess.

 

[bavman]

Nope dont waste your money on something like that especially since a lot of games dont even support physx.

You're best bet would be to sell the 260 gtx for ~$100 and get a 560 ti or a 6950 for around ~$200 which will give you much more performance than a 550

 

[itsunix]

but what about the huge OC difference on the card?


GPU
GeForce GTX 550 Ti (Fermi)
Core Clock
970MHz
Shader Clock
1940MHz
Stream Processors
192 Processor Cores
Memory
Effective Memory Clock
4200MHz
Memory Size
1GB
Memory Interface
192-bit
Memory Type
GDDR5
3D API
DirectX
DirectX 11
OpenGL
OpenGL 4.1

My current

Core=650
shader=1400
memory=1150
size=896mb

 

[holdingholder]

The clock speed matters much less than the actual core count in a gpu, and the 260 also has a much larger memory bandwidth. All in all it's only slightly more powerful than the 260. The 550ti is really not a very good option at its price point, I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, you would be better of goign with a gtx 460 or like bavman said sell the 260 and get something like the 560ti or 6950 in the 200$ price range.

 

[itsunix]

Okay i get needing more core speeds and what not.

So im going to stick with the 550 for now and try to sell my 260 gtx and then hopefully after Christmas i will try to buy this card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500196

thanks for the help

 

[jyjjy]

You should really return the GTX 550 Ti if you just bought it. It wasn't the right way to go.

 

[itsunix]

the 550ti is far beyond anything my 260gtx did. Im glad i stuck with it.

 

[jyjjy]

Your card should be about 15% or so faster than the GTX 260 on average and a good chunk of that due to the factory OC.