Computer help forum: Considering a Dedicated Physx card, worth it?

Thanks for the quick response.
I have replaced caps in LCDs before, I might be able to cannibalize an old mobo to get caps for this one (could buy them too I suppose). Any ideas on creative uses for a dedicated physx card/whether it's woth buying?

They pick a card from a list (link follows) and that's it. Done?

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107.html

It's rare to need multiple cards today unless you have some gamer that wants a percent point more.
Bob

The only reason I need multiple cards is because my geforce 560 only supports 2 monitors and I have 3. I just thought it would be nice if the second card supported physx, and was wondering if there was anything else I could do with it; and also if it was worth getting DDR5 over DDR3. I suppose I could repair my current card, but there are some issues with pairing such an old card with a newer one. Sometimes when I move a video from one screen to another it will refuse to play; this may be because the 6600 does not support hardware decoding (I think), I don't know, but it didn't seem to do that when I had my 8800GT which is broken now. Also I wonder if Nvidia will discontinue driver support for the 6600, and that may be problematic too.

Benchmarks.

It happened before where what looked like a dog of a card actually worked well. But DDR5 cards usually beat DDR3 cards. But I always defer to testing.
Bob

I decided it wasn't worth repairing my aging 6600. Do you know of a way to specify which card you want a video encoder to use for CUDA?

I check the link I gave for cards that have CUDA. (should be easy?)

I see a link about buying cards, buy no link about CUDA,

But it's a two step process. Pick a Nvidia card then check the specs. Seemed something you could do pretty fast.
Bob

I was asking about specifying which card I want to encode my videos with. Can you help me with that?

I gave the list I choose from but you have to do the final selection and check.

What I'm trying to say is that I want to tell the encoding program to use the gt 240 instead of the gtx 560 to encode video, so I can use the gtx 560 for other things like games. I haven't found a way to specify this so far. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.

Is what I use most, but I'm open to suggestions. I'm also looking to upgrade to the new version of Vegas movie studio, for the CUDA and bluray menus and stuff. I haven't contacted mediacoder.

Has your system ever offered this dialog? See image at
http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w146/rproffitt2000/WhichGPU.png

Sorry but I don't use mediacoder but let's see if they have a forum.
http://forum.mediacoderhq.com/

I see an entire forum about GPU encoding. I bet that's where you may find more answers (or more questions?)
Bob

Apparently that dialog shows up if your system has Nvidia Optimus Technology, which I think is only found on laptops (with hybrid graphics).
I will look at those forums and see what I can gather.

The card came, and with it I was able to figure this out. If I open the Nvidia Control Panel and create a profile for mediacoder, I can select which GPU to use for Cuda (for mediacoder) under Cuda- GPUs. Wasn't able to figure this out with the 6600, since it doesn't have CUDA. I'll mess around a bit more with it.