Cheapest dedicated PhysX card?

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Published on 2010-03-29T20:10:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 20:13 UTC
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Say I have a nice powerful ATI Radeon GPU but I would like to have PhysX support as well. What is the cheapest NVidia GPU I can buy to add on to my system that will support PhysX?

(I already know about the driver hacks required to get both cards running at once)

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