• SLI with GTX 650 and GTS 250?
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This is probably a stupid question, but honestly I don't know jack about this stuff. Is it possible to put my current GPU and my old one in SLI? If so, will I see an increase in performance or is it not even worth it? I'm trying to sell the stupid 250 but nobody wants to buy it so I'm just stuck with it. I'm just wondering so it isn't just laying around.
Simply no, it doesn't work. [editline]10th June 2013[/editline] If you ever planned on having more than one monitor you could use it for that.
[QUOTE=SweFox*;40965216]Simply no, it doesn't work. [editline]10th June 2013[/editline] If you ever planned on having more screen you could use it for that.[/QUOTE] Oh, alright. I only have one monitor so I guess I'll keep trying to sell it. Thank you for the quick reply!
You could use both GPUs, 650 as main one and 250 for physics. Just install both of them in your PC and in NVIDIA Control Panel check your 250 for CUDA. In PhysX supported games you'll have a great boost cause both your main GPU and CPU will be free of physics calculations.
[QUOTE=SouthParkMGT;40968370]You could use both GPUs, 650 as main one and 250 for physics. Just install both of them in your PC and in NVIDIA Control Panel check your 250 for CUDA. In PhysX supported games you'll have a great boost cause both your main GPU and CPU will be free of physics calculations.[/QUOTE] No you won't. It's not worth it with such an old card. I remember being sent a review here when I asked about doing that exact thing with my 660 and my 260 and it showed there was no gain as a result of using something lower than a 460 for physX processing. [editline]10th June 2013[/editline] [url=http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1715344]Just found this doing a quick Google search, describes the same scenario, the slower card is likely to become a bottleneck.[/url]
[QUOTE=Kaabii;40969989]No you won't. It's not worth it with such an old card. I remember being sent a review here when I asked about doing that exact thing with my 660 and my 260 and it showed there was no gain as a result of using something lower than a 460 for physX processing. [editline]10th June 2013[/editline] [url=http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1715344]Just found this doing a quick Google search, describes the same scenario, the slower card is likely to become a bottleneck.[/url][/QUOTE] Good info, thank you for that. I never knew it would make the performance even worse
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