I'm not quite there yet, but I'm making plans on upgrading my GTX 560 non-ti to a GTX 660 ti come Christmas. I intend to use my old 560 as a dedicated PhysX card afterward. Setting that up seems pretty straightforward from what I've been reading, however I did have two questions:
1. I'm going to be purchasing a new motherboard to go with my new GPU (which will require fresh windows installation), so once I get everything set up I'll leave my 560 aside and only install the 660 ti and its drivers. I'm thinking after I get my entire system up and running THEN I'll plug in my 560 and set it as my PhysX device. My question is this: Since this will be a fresh windows which has never seen the 560 before, will I need to worry about updating the drivers on my 560? If so, how would I update the drivers of my 560 separate from my 660?
2. As aforementioned, I am going to be purchasing a new motherboard. I intend on keeping my old i5 2500K, so I'm going to get a mobo that has an LGA 1155 socket as well as a PCI 3.0 x16 slot. All of the motherboards of this spec do have a PCI 2.0 slot, however they are denoted as @x4. I sorta kinda know what that means, it will only have 1/4 the bandwidth as a full x16 slot and is useful for RAID cards and whatnot. However, I'm wondering if there will be any negative impact if I put my 560 in such a slot with the intentions of running it simply as a PhysX device? I think it should be fine because I read somewhere that you could even plug in a graphics card for use as a PhysX device in a regular PCIe slot.
Thanks in advance
1. I'm going to be purchasing a new motherboard to go with my new GPU (which will require fresh windows installation), so once I get everything set up I'll leave my 560 aside and only install the 660 ti and its drivers. I'm thinking after I get my entire system up and running THEN I'll plug in my 560 and set it as my PhysX device. My question is this: Since this will be a fresh windows which has never seen the 560 before, will I need to worry about updating the drivers on my 560? If so, how would I update the drivers of my 560 separate from my 660?
2. As aforementioned, I am going to be purchasing a new motherboard. I intend on keeping my old i5 2500K, so I'm going to get a mobo that has an LGA 1155 socket as well as a PCI 3.0 x16 slot. All of the motherboards of this spec do have a PCI 2.0 slot, however they are denoted as @x4. I sorta kinda know what that means, it will only have 1/4 the bandwidth as a full x16 slot and is useful for RAID cards and whatnot. However, I'm wondering if there will be any negative impact if I put my 560 in such a slot with the intentions of running it simply as a PhysX device? I think it should be fine because I read somewhere that you could even plug in a graphics card for use as a PhysX device in a regular PCIe slot.
Thanks in advance
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