Dear community,
I am building a new ATI based gaming rig based on the Phenom II X6 1090T processor and a dual Radeon 5850 in a crossfire arrangement. However, realizing that many of the games which I wish to play on the best graphics quality humanly possible have extensive PhysX support, I am contemplating the best options of what to do to counteract Nvidia’s egoistic brainchild (for a price that is feasible for me to justify to my Jewish soul).
From reading the forums I have come to the conclusion that fitting a secondary Nvidia card graphics card to run only the PhysX calculations would be the best step forward (taking into account the windows 7 workaround patch which is currently available).
I guess my questions would be:
Is the above actually technically possible? I.e windows 7 has the ability to support two sets of graphics drivers, however, will having a crossfire + a third Nvidia component be feasible, or efficient?
What Nvidia card could you suggest for this configuration? (I would like to keep the cost of this component reasonably low.
What alternative solutions could you recommend?
P.S. I do not think that cooling should be a problem due to the brilliant low power usage of the 5850s, and abundant cooling equipment within the well ventilated box (Liquid cooling, good PCU fan, and a PCI fan under the crossfire cards (The Nvidia would go under it).
Sincerely yours.
Dmitry
I am building a new ATI based gaming rig based on the Phenom II X6 1090T processor and a dual Radeon 5850 in a crossfire arrangement. However, realizing that many of the games which I wish to play on the best graphics quality humanly possible have extensive PhysX support, I am contemplating the best options of what to do to counteract Nvidia’s egoistic brainchild (for a price that is feasible for me to justify to my Jewish soul).
From reading the forums I have come to the conclusion that fitting a secondary Nvidia card graphics card to run only the PhysX calculations would be the best step forward (taking into account the windows 7 workaround patch which is currently available).
I guess my questions would be:
Is the above actually technically possible? I.e windows 7 has the ability to support two sets of graphics drivers, however, will having a crossfire + a third Nvidia component be feasible, or efficient?
What Nvidia card could you suggest for this configuration? (I would like to keep the cost of this component reasonably low.
What alternative solutions could you recommend?
P.S. I do not think that cooling should be a problem due to the brilliant low power usage of the 5850s, and abundant cooling equipment within the well ventilated box (Liquid cooling, good PCU fan, and a PCI fan under the crossfire cards (The Nvidia would go under it).
Sincerely yours.
Dmitry