youTube user juggolo has posted a nice video showing his Hybrid PhysX setup using a Radeon 5870 along with a 9800GT for dedicated PhysX. He shoes off his system then GPU-Z and runs PhysX fluidmark and 3D Mark vantage to prove his dedicated PhysX card is indeed working to process the PhysX calculations along with the 5870 as the main renderer, check it out below.
Hardwareforyou.it has posted a really nice and in-depth, 10 minute long video to YouTube with detailed steb-by-step instruction on how to setup a hybrid PhysX system if you are running an ATI card as your main graphics renderer and want to install a second NVIDIA video card and use it for PhysX. Check it out below.
Despite the blockade with the latest nVidia drivers that prevent the use of PhysX in the system are detected if non-nVidia cards on some forums there is a guide on how to patch the drivers to use PhysX with an ATI card. Our video will be a testimony that the block from nVidia did not do anything other than to damage the same company.
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If you have an ATI card and want to use a separate NVIDIA card for dedicated PhysX so you can use and play all the latest PhysX games check out the how to guides we have posted about here:
Got bored so decided to try PhysX with my card to see how it would run. To my surprise it works quite well so I decided I’ll just post a video of it running for you peeps.
Drivers used is the 195.62 WHQL’s w/ Catalyst 10.1 WHQL’s
Card used dedicated for PhysX was an XFX 9500GT (just so happened to be the same company as the 5870′s)
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