Galaxy GTX 480 with dedicated Physx GPU

[Odinarius]

Guys, seen this?

http://techpowerup.com/123793/Galaxy...PhysX_GPU.html

What a marketing gimmick and ripoff...

Along the lines of this:http://techpowerup.com/123633/PowerC..._Up_Close.html

and this: http://techpowerup.com/123613/PowerC...ther_Card.html


Can`t believe somebody would actually buy this crap.

[mrcrusty]

Agreed for the most part, but the Lucid Hydra has potential. Give it another year or two and it may become desirable.

[Freddie]

I wonder if the phsyx chip turns itself off when it's not being used or does it stay turned on eating up electric?

[Odinarius]

Agreed for the most part, but the Lucid Hydra has potential. Give it another year or two and it may become desirable.

There have been MBO˙s with Lucid Hydra (I think MSI`s) and it didn`t really work as advertised... There were some gains, but really minimal. The major problem is different speeds at which different graphic cards operate, so that gain cannot be linearly increased.

Plus the software support was awful, most games didn`t recognize the system at all.

I wonder about the pricing.

I wonder if the phsyx chip turns itself off when it's not being used or does it stay turned on eating up electric?

I suppose it`s off, but Nvidia`s cards support Physx already, why put another chip in? GPU utilization with GTX 470 and 480 has been no more then 60% anyway, so it`s pretty useless.