3DMark Vantage No PhysX Card Part 2 of 2

In Part 2 of this two part series, I run through 3DMark Vantage with no PhysX Card installed in order to see if there is a discrepancy in the scores from Part 1. Again, same exact settings with the i7-920 set at 4.4GHz. Will I beat the baseline score achieved in Part 1, or even come close to my all-time high score of 28,784?
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[NoahLDiamond]

You forgot to turn off physx on the nvidia control panel, as far as it looks to me. I used to pull the same scores with a similar setup.

[SirJamesDDJ]

The point of the video was the card, not having PhysX off or on

[SonsOfHateSphere]

8800 GT is too weak as PPU in your system. A 250 GTS would do a fine job.

Even a bad PhysX card can bottleneck your system.

[SirJamesDDJ]

Too weak how? I don't find I'm bottlenecked at all. Vantage just doesn't like dedicated PhysX cards, probably for the same reason enabling PhysX makes your score unofficial.

[SonsOfHateSphere]

It's because your GPU's are much faster than the PPU. So actually your 285's are waiting for the 8800 to finish the data, and that makes a bottleneck.

In real world gaming performance you won't notice any decrease in performance if you are bottlenecked by the PPU, since your GPU's will take over the task instead of waiting. 250 GTS is the most popular PPU, if you have 200GTX in SLI. It's a damn good PPU

Veteran facts from SLI-Zone forums ;) Oh! And congrats with the (very nice!) score! :)

[SirJamesDDJ]

Interesting. Thanks for the congrats.

I suppose the PhysX won't matter in a bit of time when Fermi 395 is released.

[Zanith50]

maybe your cpu is better for physix

[Gamer686]

Only games with physx you can have a physx card...

[rockdrummer1226]

What does a PhysX card do? How can it give a performance bump or hit?

[Swordfish185]

Question i got 2 gtx 295 in SLI and i am thinking of geting a Gtx 260 for physx but i have a 120hz monitor so its taking up 2 of my DVI ports and i have a 2nd monitor can i connect it to the GTX 260 that will be running physx. Do you know?

[sisksh]

oops, posted this right before you said you already looked in msconfig. nice score. i laughed during the HOLY NUTSACK part, epic

[sisksh]

to not get software to start up, go to start, type RUN, enter. then type in msconfig, enter. then go over to startup tab, uncheck anything that you dont want to start up, usually everything thats not vital in my case. hope that helps. very nice test video

[SonsOfHateSphere]

I think PhysX + DX11 gonna be kickass! We will see ;) Cheers!