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since I first heard about the GTS 450 I thought it would be interesting to test

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this card because it is coming in at around a $100 price point I wanted to

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test it as a dedicated FX card so you

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can see I've got it configured here right now with the GTX 480 and then the

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GTS 450 because this is for fizx and not

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for SLI there's no need to install any SLI Bridges or anything like that and I

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am using a motherboard that has two PCI E6 16x slots so that's all you really

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need for FX now when you want to configure a dedicated FX card all you do

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is go into the NVIDIA control panel okay so you go into set physx configuration

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and then you select your physx processor so Auto Select would probably select the

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450 but I've gone ahead and selected the 450 anyway you can see the other options

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would be to run physx on the 480 run it on the CPU which is

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slow or run it on the 450 so then all you do is Click apply and that's all

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there is to it so you can see here it

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says yeah FX is running here and then the display is running here so that's

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fairly straightforward so what I'm going to do is I'll uh do up a little graph

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with some Benchmark results this is the same test bench I used for my GTS 450

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review as well as my gts450 uh SLI

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review well review and uh so I'm just

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going to go ahead and compare the 480 numbers I got without a dedicated physx

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card so while I was running physx on the on the 480 itself with adding the 450 to

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take a little bit of the load off

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it well I think based on the numbers the conclusion for this video is quite

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simple because you can see that a GTX 480 is a little over $500 after rebate

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on the ncx site and then a GTS

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450 is going to run you about

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$129.99 so you're adding about 25% more

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cost to your setup by adding a GTS 450

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on top of the GTX 480 that in theory you already

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own but you also get about on average a

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24.5% Improvement in performance so it's

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not actually very often on premium parts that you can pay an extra dollar to get

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an extra proportional amount of performance like usually see a point of

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diminishing returns where you're spending you know twice as much but

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you're only getting you know 1.5 times the amount of performance so it's

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actually a pretty good value from that perspective but the drawback is that out

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of all of the games that I have here on my Steam

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account I only have like two that support fizx so it's one of those

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situations where yes as a best case scenario a dedicated GTS 450 looks like

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a great value if you play games that are going to take advantage of it but if you

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don't play physx enabled games then you'd probably be better off saving your

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pennies to grab another 480 to run an SLI or finding some other way to

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increase the performance of your system so thanks for checking out my little

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mini review on using the GTS 450 as a

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dedicated physx processor