Dark Void PhysX on High (HD4850+9800GT) Hybrid PhysX Setup Gameplay Video

• February 21, 2010
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YouTube user R3n7on has made and uploaded a couple of awesome videos of him palying Dark Void with PhysX set to High running on his HD4850+9800GT Hybrid PhysX setup, check them out below and if you want to see more awesome PhysX videos of Dark Void in action be sure to check out our previous posts:

Dark Void GPU PhysX Comparison Video
Nvidia Dark Void GPU PhysX Comparison Video Released
Dark Void PC Game Technology Trailer Featuring NVIDIA PhysX Technology And PhysX Comparison Video

Playing Dark Void with ATi+nVidia combo.

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PhysX on “High”

Dark Void PhysX on High [ground] (HD4850+9800GT):

Dark Void PhysX on High [air] (HD4850+9800GT):

ATI Radeon HD5870+9800GT and GTX280+9800GT Hybrid PhysX Testing by Fudzilla

• February 6, 2010
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Fudzilla has done some nice hybrid PhysX testing, using a ATI Radeon HD5870 mixed with a 9800GT for dedicated PhysX and then the GTX285 and the same 9800GT for dedicated PhysX. Fudzilla then uses the Batman: Arkham Asylum PhysX benchmark in the demo to test performance with the different combination of the cards. Though the article is pretty simple it is great to see the different setups and how they perform with and without the dedicated PhysX card, check it the rest of the article here.

From Fudzilla:

So, if you for instance own a Geforce GTX 260, you can use a cheaper Geforce such as 9600GT to handle your PhysX calculations. In practice, it’s as simple as choosing the dedicated PhysX card in Nvidia’s driver.

Unfortunately for some, Nvidia kept the technology to itself, so Radeon cards aren’t supported, but that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible. PhysX support is automatically blocked upon detection of Radeon cards, but luckily, there are workarounds and various forums have been pretty loud about it for a while.

We recently included Batman: Arkham Asylum game in our gaming benchmarks, and while the game supports PhysX effects, we usually use only the results we got without PhysX. The reason hides behind Radeon cards which don’t score a good enough framerate when PhysX is on, so there’s no point in comparing them. Since it’s not very fair to exclude Nvidia’s strengths from our tests and our trusted readers have requested Radeon results with PhysX effects on, we decided to do it. So, we embarked on what would many fans of green and red camps probably called sacrilege – we assigned a Geforce card to handle PhysX and as our primary card we used a Radeon.

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5850 Crossfire results with PhysX Enabled

• December 26, 2009
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Enmity over at techpowerup forums has upgraded his computer to two 5850 ATI Radeon video cards running in Crossfire along with a 9800GT for dedicated PhysX and has posted some cool pictures in his thread. Check it out here.

from the techpowerup forums:

Recently I upgraded from my old 4850′s to 2x MSI 5850′s and managed to squeeze a lil 9800gt inbetween them too. the 5850′s actually run at pretty decent temps even while overclocked but the 9800gt gets up to about 80-90C when running physx. I guess this is ok considering the complete lack of airflow between the 5850s but looks great none the less!

Read the rest of the thread here.