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    Default Galaxy GTX 480 with dedicated Physx GPU

    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.

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    Default Re: Galaxy GTX 480 with dedicated Physx GPU

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


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    Default Re: Galaxy GTX 480 with dedicated Physx GPU

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

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    Default Re: Galaxy GTX 480 with dedicated Physx GPU

    Quote Originally Posted by mrcrusty View Post
    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.

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