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Posted by Brandon Sandman Bell on Thursday October 22, 2009 - 11:22 AM

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» EVGA and NVIDIA prepping custom dual GPU PhysX card

Now this is interesting. This teaser page on EVGA's website cryptically hints at a card that's "a rocking new graphics card designed by NVIDIA and EVGA to take PhysX to the next level."

Bright Side of News is reporting that the card in question fuses a GeForce GTX 275 GPU with a GeForce GTS 250, with the GTX 275 handling graphics duties while the GTS 250 secondary GPU is dedicated for PhysX. BSN believes EVGA takes the GeForece GTX 295 single-PCB reference design and replaces the second GTX 275 chip with the GTS 250's G92 GPU, which is outfitted with 512MB of memory. The secondary graphics chip is used solely for PhysX: so you can't use it to hook up additional displays. To keep power consumption in check it runs in idle mode when not in use.

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Click to view Kerrick's User Page Kerrick (217)  Talk to Kerrick in the Shout! Box Oct 24, 2009 - 02:55 pm
it won't be a waste of silicon once game companies start coding their games to make use of it. Right now, yes, it's kinda worthless. But hopefully the day will come when it becomes commonplace.

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Click to view spewn's User Page spewn (34)  Talk to spewn in the Shout! Box Oct 26, 2009 - 10:36 am
The point is: Who would buy this instead of a normal dual-GPU setup where you can do what this card does *or* use the second GPU for graphics? It's going to have to occupy a weird price-point. I certainly wouldn't buy one, I'd be much better off just buying a second card to throw in and use for PhysX.

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Click to view FSgeeK's User Page FSgeeK (574)  Click to view FSgeeK's User Profile Talk to FSgeeK in the Shout! Box Oct 24, 2009 - 11:24 am
Ya this sux i wouldnt waste my time looking into it further than this article.

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Click to view Kamus's User Page Kamus (120)  Talk to Kamus in the Shout! Box Oct 22, 2009 - 05:08 pm
Sounds like a complete waste of a second chip IMO, one of the reasons PhysX never took off in the first place was because it was a waste of silicon most of the time, now they want to offer a dual GPU videocard that doesn't do anything when there's no physX... doesn't sound that great to me, you'd be better off just getting a dual GPU card that ran both.

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