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Brent_Justice

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It works, just thought I'd throw this out there. I attempted an odd combination and found it successful.

ASUS A8N SLI-Deluxe motherboard, the PCI-Express selector on Single Video Card.

1st PCI Express Slot - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX - LCD connected

2nd PCI Express Slot - ATI Radeon X1300 Pro - LCD connected

Installation:

First installed 8800 GTX, installed drivers, works fine.

Then installed X1300 Pro, installed complete catalyst suite w/CCC (though also tried just the display driver which worked as well without CCC) works fine.

I had coexisting NVIDIA And ATI drivers installed with both cards functioning fully. I had dual monitor enabled and was able to use it fully. Right Clicking on desktop revealed both driver options in the menu. I was able to run NVIDIA control panel, make changes, play games. I was able to launch CCC and also make changes, didn't try games though, but I imagine it would have worked.

Just a little experiment I wanted to conduct to see what would happen, and for me, it did work.
 
did you notice them staring menacingly at each other in the case?? ;)
 
revenant said:
did you notice them staring menacingly at each other in the case?? ;)
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lol

well anyway, that's cool to know. if you got an empty pci slot you snhould throw an old SiS card in there to try and run tripple. :D
 
I can only imagine the future simplicity of benchmarking competing cards against each other with this setup. Talk about apples to apples system setups! How do you tell a game which card to run on? By which display you have active when you launch it?


Hmm, with dual high-end cards, dual monitors, and a multicore CPU, set core affinities on the games and play two games at once like they were on two separate boxes. Or in multiplayer mode, you could play with yourself...:D
 
Rabid Badger said:
I have a feeling that the X1300 doesn't want to do anything to tick off the 8800.
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Yea...look at the size of the beast that is the 8800 :p
 
Staring menacingly at each other? Ticking off another? No! These are gentlemen corporate cards. It is just that one is higher on speed than the other.
 
revenant said:
did you notice them staring menacingly at each other in the case?? ;)
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I doubt it its probably more like everytime he leaves the room the 8800 starts beating the x1300 with a stick and the x1300 spends its days cowering in fear!

But its good to know that they cooperate well. My Nvidia vid card and ATI tv tuner have been coexisting well for some time now, they dont fight cause they know whos in charge :p
 
Apparently so. It's cool that the driver sets don't conflict with each other and both seem to work, according to Brent's report. Last I heard someone tried to do this, they -had- to have the Nvidia card in the primary gpu spot (slot 0?) or it would not work.
 
Brent_Justice said:
It works, just thought I'd throw this out there. I attempted an odd combination and found it successful.

ASUS A8N SLI-Deluxe motherboard, the PCI-Express selector on Single Video Card.

1st PCI Express Slot - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX - LCD connected

2nd PCI Express Slot - ATI Radeon X1300 Pro - LCD connected

Installation:

First installed 8800 GTX, installed drivers, works fine.

Then installed X1300 Pro, installed complete catalyst suite w/CCC (though also tried just the display driver which worked as well without CCC) works fine.

I had coexisting NVIDIA And ATI drivers installed with both cards functioning fully. I had dual monitor enabled and was able to use it fully. Right Clicking on desktop revealed both driver options in the menu. I was able to run NVIDIA control panel, make changes, play games. I was able to launch CCC and also make changes, didn't try games though, but I imagine it would have worked.

Just a little experiment I wanted to conduct to see what would happen, and for me, it did work.
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now you have to SLI them (or crossfire), in true [H] style.
 
A house divided cannot stand. At some point they will work themselves free and strangle each other.
 
I ran ATI and NVIDIA cards together for years with no issues for triple monitor support.
 
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