How to dedicate a card to physx?

jtgolden1s

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I am wanting to have my gtx 560 ti only for physx and get a 590. Do I need a sli board or will a mobo with 2 pci 2.0 slots work. Do I also need a sli bridge?
 

d1rtyju1c3

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No you dont need an sli board, your board will work. No, you dont need an Sli bridge.

After you install the card simply go into the Nvidia control panel, go to the sli and physx configuration and select the 560 ti and check dedicate to physx.

Assuming that your nvidia drivers are up to date that is all you have to do. If not then update to the newest driver then do the above. Reason being that the 560 ti didnt share drivers with other 500 series cards for a little while.
 

Oh? Care to shed some light on that.
 

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When the 560 ti was released they had there own driver for a while so you couldnt set them up as a physx card with anything other than another 560 ti it sucked. I found this out while trying to use an old GTX 275. < I know it is not a 500 series but i found other people trying to use the 560 ti with other 500 series cards with the same issue.

look at supported products
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-266.66-whql-driver.html

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-267.26-beta-driver.html


And here they finally released a driver that supported all cards
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7-winvista-64bit-270.51-beta-driver.html

here you can browse old drivers for the 580 and see that they didnt support the 560 ti until 270.51
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us