Help needed Pls.

2006-12-29 05:45:50

#1

acidkiller187: Member; +123|7087

*.Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Processor w/ HyperTransport and Dual Core Technology
*.Power Supply: 700 Watt Alienware Approved Multi-GPU Power Supply
*.Motherboard: Alienware Approved NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Motherboard
*'Memory: 2GB DDR2 PC-6400 SDRAM at 800MHz - 2 x 1024MB
*.System Drive: High Performance - 160GB Serial ATA 7,200 3Gb/s RPM w/ NCQ & 8MB Cache
*.Primary CD ROM/DVD ROM: 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive w/LightScribe Technology
*.Graphics Processor: 256MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce 7900 GT - DVI Dual Link Supported
*.Physics Processing Unit: Ageia PhysX Processing Unit w/ 128MB GDDR3 Video Optimizer:..Don't think I have to much space between the two cards..

Now the problem is that I don't have allot of PC building experience, and I'm scared that if i buy the 8800 it wont fit.. (cause it looks "MASSIVE").

And which 8800 would you recommend to get cause I don't have a clue..

2006-12-29 08:15:33

#2

CrazeD: Member; +368|7129|Maine

If you have one slot between the PhysX card and the PCI-e slot, it will fit. It only takes up two slots total.

2006-12-29 08:18:45

#3

darthazeem: Member; +7|6929

Get the 8800GTX faster clock speed, just because the 8800 is big it should still fit in your mobo you may have to sacrifice some other items or move them around but the GPU will fit in your system just might take some fiddling w/to get it to fit properly. Especially being as it is a SLI board you will have plenty of room as well as enough room to fit 2 in there in SLI mode (there is always a large gap between the 2 PCIE slots usually 1-2 PCI slots).

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2006-12-29 08:23:56

#4

Cybargs: Moderated; +2,285|7173

darthazeem wrote:
Get the 8800GTX faster clock speed, just because the 8800 is big it should still fit in your mobo you may have to sacrifice some other items or move them around but the GPU will fit in your system just might take some fiddling w/to get it to fit properly. Especially being as it is a SLI board you will have plenty of room as well as enough room to fit 2 in there in SLI mode (there is always a large gap between the 2 PCIE slots usually 1-2 PCI slots).

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What I would do is drop the physx card and upgrade to the 8800GTX

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2006-12-29 08:29:25

#5

LockerFish: Member; +47|7162

To avoid making a new topic, what's the point of the physics card?

2006-12-29 08:31:37

#6

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7300|Reykjavík, Iceland.

LockerFish wrote:
To avoid making a new topic, what's the point of the physics card?

It's a standalone component that is there only to calculate physics, basically, it does the same as graphic cards, helps the processor calculate.

2006-12-29 08:37:05

#7

Mouse315: Bash.org Junkie; +105|6977

LockerFish wrote:
To avoid making a new topic, what's the point of the physics card?

Prettier explosions in games that support it.

Takes stress off of the graphics card by doing some of its work (in games where it is supported).

2006-12-29 08:42:17

#8

darthazeem: Member; +7|6929

Does the Physics card use a PCIE or PCI slot? If it uses PCI just move it down.

2006-12-29 12:00:11

#9

The#1Spot: Member; +105|6996|byah

i think they will start using pci-e soon for the physics card cause the new mobos with 3pci-e are already out

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