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Most value: Orange box (mainly TF2 and Portal) Like: COD MW2 (single player) Dead space Mass effect 2 GTA 4 and Stories of liberty city Mafia 2 Dislike: C&C red alert 2 Fallout 3 Left 4 dead I generally like the tombraider adventures as well. Not into those WOW things and other (MMO)RPG games

Ok, another point of view: Since there is soo little good info on the internet on this subject I won't go for an dedicated gpu. If the impact is that glorious with an extra Physx GPU, then sure there was a lot more info to find and a lot more enthousiasm about the subject. Gonna pick up Mafia2 tomorrow and c how it performs.

Ok now i've seen the Mafia 2 specs: Apex High: GTX480 + GTX280 for Physx? That even surpasses my setup. Now the most puzzling i've came across on the www is the new dual gpu from Galaxy. It is dual gpu card: a gtx480 with a gt240 chip for Physx. They are claiming this, especially the last sentence is interresting: The overall specs of the device, as far as the GF100 is concerned, aren't exactly different from the original ones. The amount of memory is unchanged (1536MB) as are the 384-bit interface, the 480 CUDA cores and the rest of the feature set (3D Vision surround support, etc.). The unusual part starts with the GT 240 itself, which has 512MB GDDR5 of its own, as well as a 128-bit interface, 96 CUDA cores and compatibility with DirectCompute 4.1. Basically, this secondary chip should be able to offload all PhysX calculations, leaving the GF100 free to do graphics rendering. Would this point out that (since the GTX480 is on quite on par with the gtx295) a gt240 does not drag down the performance of the gtx480 (gtx295 in my case)? I'd like a gt240 to offload my gtx295 so that i can use the whole 295 for rendering alone. I was going for a heavier gpu but since my PSU is (Coolermaster Real power M700) only 700 Watts, then I'm gonna need a bigger PSU as well. That given only Physx will cost me +- 100 euro for the GTS250 for example and another 120 euros for a 850 Watt PSU or something in that range. So 200+ euro's for just Physx. That is too expensive for just Physx i think. Something tells me: the heavier ur Physx GPU the better

I was thinking of buying some new games like metro 2033 and mafia 2. Both of these games support Nvidia's PhysX. I know it is possible to add another GPU (Geforce 8,9 200 and 400 series) for handling just the Physx part. I am thinking to buy eiter the 9800gtx+ or the gtx260 to add as the axtra GPU for handling PhysX. Now I was wondering if someone is having a similar setup and could share some thoughts. My current setup: Asus P7P55D-Deluxe Intel Core i7 860 @3.5 GHz Gainward GTX295 4 GB RAM