kumquatsrus
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Should work just fine. I have had a 9600 GT in an open-back x4 slot for a long time as a PhysX card. Not too many motherboards have open-back x1 slots, though. If yours does, you should be fine. If you're thinking about hacking, just be very careful about it, and make sure that there are no motherboard components directly 'behind' the slot where the card-side connector would be.
Cheapest card? A used 8400 GS; although new ones can be had for as little as about $30, if you dig around. (Although the intergrated-chipset GeForce 8100 can also do it, but I don't know if that chipset will leave the onboard GPU active when you have a non-nVidia card add-in card. Heck, nVidia only officially offers "Hybrid SLI" when you plug in an 8400 GS.)
actually the physx requirements have been updated for a while now to:
GeForce 8-series GPUs and later (with a minimum of 32 cores and a minimum of 256MB dedicated graphics memory) support PhysX.
so the lowest i think would be an 8600gt (or 9500gt), though it is usually recommended that a 9600gt is the minimum in order to obtain decent performance.
list of compatible gpus:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_gpus.html
home page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html
powerpacks for those that may be interested:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/graphicsplus/us/download.asp
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