gts 250 as PPU - to buy,or not to buy?

[dany74q]

Hello there,
I currently owe a sapphire 3870x2 card,and have noticed that it performs kind of poorly in several games,due to that I`ve decided to buy a new card.
I have two choices for now,though I can`t really decide,
1.Buy a GTS 250 and add it up to the system as a PPU for physx games & benchmarks.
2.Sell my 3870x2 and add some extra to 5770/5850/9800gx2/gtx 275,etc..

I have noticed a high percentage of games that came/will come this year supports physx technology,can`t really decide between those two.

Thanks,
Danny.

[Musho]

I'd say go with the 5850. But you should really wait a few more days for Fermi to launch. Could drive down the price a bit. The reason why I say 5850: It has a very good price/performance ratio, has DX11 which will help in future titles and draws _way_ less power than your current 3870x2 (which allows it to run cooler, and clock higher). The gts250 will only boost performance in games with physx, which there aren't too many off. And even if you do want to play such games, you can either mod the game so physx runs multithreaded on your CPU (batman), which would give you good performance or some titles already have multithreaded physx (such as Metro 2033, which runs fine with physx enabled on my Q9650 @ 4050mhz)

[zanzabar]

hardware pshyX is not in most games as something that makes the game better or is needed for the game to perform, i would suggest selling the card (i dont think that u will get much for it) then buying a 5850

[Meta-Prometheus]

Nvidia has a list of PhysX capable cards (http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_gpus.html).

You can also run an ATI card as your primary and any Nvidia card as a PhysX add-in. The last guide I know to be working you can find here (http://www.overclock.net/ati/591872-how-run-physx-windows-7-ati.html).

Hope this helps!!