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Is it possible to setup a system with 1 GTX470 on 2 monitors, and another GTX285 card used only for physX, on the 3rd monitor?

I believe you need two of the same card for NVIDIA Surround. You can run PhysX on the 2nd card (where the 3rd monitor is attached).

Hmm interesting question!

I am wondering if I can use all 4 video outs (2DVI on first card and 1DVI and 1HDMI on the second)? 3DVI for Surround and 1HDVI for LCD TV?

No! I tried and I can't. Second card's ports are passive in CF.

Nvidia states that you have to be running SLI for surround, but as long as you have the PCIE slots you can dedicate any Nvidia card to physX.

Believe it or not my 5870 cannot max Crysis out with a dedicated physX card at 5040X1050, I am eventually going to xfire 2 of them,......must not have graphical limits......!
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Crysis doesn't use PhysX, so a PhysX card won't help with it.

Best option for multimon + physx could be a board like the evga classified. It's got a slot layout that'd allow you to run up to tri-sli + physx. ooor if nvidia don't get their sh*t together and tri-sli surround fails, just get any old board :P

To answer the original post, yes it is possible but not with nVidia Surround, you can use the free software SoftTH (note: SoftTH can only run dx9 mode). I run a gtx470 to drive two monitors, and a 8800gt for PhysX and the third monitor...

I do plan to get another gtx470 however if the reviews are good for surround so I can triplewide dx10/dx11...

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To answer the original post, yes it is possible but not with nVidia Surround, you can use the free software SoftTH (note: SoftTH can only run dx9 mode). I run a gtx470 to drive two monitors, and a 8800gt for PhysX and the third monitor...

I do plan to get another gtx470 however if the reviews are good for surround so I can triplewide dx10/dx11...

+1 Use SoftTH
Currently using gtx285 for render, 8800gts for phsyx and 9600gt for 3rd monitor.

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