I've heard that Ati cards can't work on nVidia chipset based motherboards and vice versa. What about compatibility issues with intel chipsets? Will there be any diff between using Ati cards with Ati chipsets, and Ati cards with intel chipsets...? what about nVidia cards with nVidia chipsets and nVidia cards with intel chipsets...?
Generally you can put any video card on the computer, regardless of chipset brands. I'm sure it'll be fine to put an nVidia card into an ATI chipset board, and vice versa.
you've tested it before? I asked a computer store guy and he said he can't guaranty that Ati cards will work well with nVidia chipsets... A customer once complained to him about that problem, and a change to an nVidia card solved the customer's problem...
Rubbish Don't believe everything you hear in PC shops. I've run two different ATI cards on my nForce4 mobo without any problems whatsoever. And on the flip side, apparently the upcoming DFI board based on ATI's RD600 chipset does Geforce 7900 SLI even better than the nForce chipsets
if you are using single card, it really doesn't matter the chipset. Generally speaking nvidia's card pair with nvidia's chipset will give a tad better performance (but probably won't be noticeable in real world).
Sorry to differ with u,but ATI RD600 will be supporting their Crossfire, not SLI. RD600 will have 3 PCI-E 16x slots.ATI will start preaching that you can use two graphic cards in Crossfire for better gaming performance and you can use the third slot for physics. It will be released to compete with the nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition and Intel 975X Express.RD600's Bus speed will be up to 1500 Mhz & it'll be supporting DDR3. More about RD600 is here :- http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2645&www.reghardware.co.uk & here http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/02/ati_rd600_details/ According to documentation from ATI, RD600 looks like a monster. The board material claims the chipset can already support 1333MHz FSB with an expectation that it should reach 1500MHz FSB.The most notable feature of the RD600 is the memory controller. ATI has developed an elaborate memory controller that operates asynchronously from the front-side bus. No more memory dividers means the front-side bus can be overclocked drastically without being limited to memory. There will also be support for DDR2-1066 too. ATI claims the RD600 has been overclocked to 375 MHz (1500 MHz Quad pumped) using the current reference board.
AFAIK SLI/CrossFire can work on any ATI/NVIDIA chipset based mobo but of course, ATI & NVIDIA don't want that to happen I think they probably did it with some modded drivers. It's being done before on A8R32-MVP and EP-9U1697 GLI before where SLI is disabled.
Not officially of course, but as Max_87 and Chai both mentioned, you can do it with hacked drivers. I never said anything about support Here's the source: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1888832&postcount=215
If it's possible,then r u trying 2 say that SLI is also possible on 975x. Just for query.Can we use one Nvidia & 1 ATI in a single mobo ?
I've seen that in a review already but not neither in SLI , nor in the Crossfire mode.They will not work simultaneously.They can work only 1 at a time.I mean to say that,if u want Nvidia card to work,u'll have to turn the ATI card off from a hacked software & if u want the ATI card to work,then u'll have to disable the Nvidia card from the same software.
I've just found something. " The VIA PT880Pro chipset supports the use of both AGP and PCI Express graphics cards – either one by themselves or both at the same time. If you upgrade, you can keep on using your AGP 8X graphics card. You don’t have to upgrade to a PCI Express graphics card at the same time that you buy your new motherboard, allowing you to stagger the cost of the upgrade. Best of all, once you can afford a new PCI Express graphics card, your old AGP 8X card doesn’t become redundant. It can be used at the same time as your new PCI Express graphics card. In this way, u can use both Nvidia & the ATI in the same mobo together simultaneously but one of them has to AGP based & the one has to be PCI-E based. http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=433 Take a look at here.This will surely attract u. ATI X800 And GeForce 6800 Simultaneously :- If you already had a next generation nVidia or ATI card but didn't want to be bound to a specific platform because you play both Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, it looks like you're in luck. The Geeks over at Tom's Hardware put together a cheatsheet that explains how to use an SLI platform to install both an ATI and an nVidia card. Now before someone asks, let me first say that these cards no longer operate in SLI mode when this is done; however, for those who want to use a particular card for a particular game, this might be the configuration for you. Apparently the setup requires a number of restarts, but the ATI and nVidia drivers eventually get along with one another. Image Links :- http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/ati-nv-together.jpg http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/device_manageratinv.gif http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/taskbar-ati-nv.gif http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/card-switching2.gif http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/card-switching3.gif http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/card-switching1.gif http://images.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/card-switching7.gif The test links :- http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/page32.html http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/11/23/nvidia/page33.html
Even if you can operate both, I still don't see the point. It's not like sound cards where people can have, for example, one for gaming and one for mixing/recording work. In the end both ATI and Nvidia cards perform the same functions and the difference in performance between competing cards isn't that big.
lolz.. you can use them for 4 monitor setup so troublesome.. havet to restart .. reminds me of Sony VAIO SZ series... there is switch to choose between Nvidia 7400 or intel GMA
Ya they can be used to run 4 monitors simultaneously.There is a point to use both cards simultaneously coz some games r built 2 take more advantages than the other like HL2 is said 2 be more stronger when using ATI than a equivalent Nvidia & some other games u know r also optimized 4 the Nvidia.So, u'll have the choice to run ne specific game optimized for either Nvidia or ATI by switching to that particular card to take the performance benefit.Wouldn't that be great ?