GA-P85-D3T Can i use SLI ?

[Amir Adel]

I have Gigabyte GA-P85-D3T and it has 2x PCIe slots, i have GTX 750 Ti in the main one, and i have an old VGA which is 9600 GT , is it possible installing it as well in the 2nd PCIe slot as a physx card ?, and if yes is it worthy ?

Thanks in advance

 

[GhislainG]

The second PCI Express x16 slot is running at x4; therefore it doesn't meet the SLI specifications. Since you already have it, you could try the old GPU as a physx card, but why would you do that instead of using the 750 Ti? Even if the motherboard supported SLI, it wouldn't make much sense to use such different graphics cards because the latest 750 Ti drivers don't support the 9600 GT.

 

[mlga91]

You can use only as a dedicated PHYSX card, to do SLI you need a second slot running at X8. Now, there will be an improvement? Hard to know, older cards tend to cause an slowdown, and i've never felt that using a PHYSX justifies using a secondary card, using more power and providing more heat just for a few enhacements.

 

[Amir Adel]

So it's not worthy, from what u said guys i think even using a dedicated physx card wont do that much difference, so i'm not going to think about it 😀

Thank you guys for replying