would ATi chipsets plus nVidia vid cards play nice?

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or is that a dead kitten kinda thing?

there's some nice mobos out there i'm looking at for my 939 and i noticed some of the new ATi chipset offerings...

would that not matter or is that like oil and water?
 
I can say that the eVGA 8800GTX + Asus A8R32-MVP are working fine.
 
yeah i used to us a msi rd480 neo2-fi crossfire mobo with my 7900gs/8800gts and everything worked fine
 
wtf dead kitten?

yeah, you can use ATi boards with nVidia cards and vice versa, but crossfire/sli won't work with the other brand.
 
stormshadow said:
or is that a dead kitten kinda thing?

there's some nice mobos out there i'm looking at for my 939 and i noticed some of the new ATi chipset offerings...

would that not matter or is that like oil and water?
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Yes, but SLI is out of the question.

I have to ask why you would want to use an ATI mobo chipset though? The south bridges suck and the performance on some of those chipsets is below that of the NVIDIA and ATI counterparts.
 
Dan_D said:
Yes, but SLI is out of the question.

I have to ask why you would want to use an ATI mobo chipset though? The south bridges suck and the performance on some of those chipsets is below that of the NVIDIA and ATI counterparts.
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Should I/we presume you meant NVIDIA and VIA counterparts?
 
I'm a bit late on this topic, but I do have some experience on this matter.

I have an Asus A8R32-MVP board, based on the R580 chipset, and tried to get it to work with a BFG 7900GS OC video card.

Sometimes, the system would freeze during games, with a looping sound playing constantly, and then unfreeze after 15-20 seconds.

I tried different drivers, even tried upping the power supply, etc., but the only thing that helped was to turn down the HT speed from 1 GHz to 800 MHz, and to give the CPU about a 0.05V boost. No real difference in performance, and it's stable.

This didn't happen when I used a GeForce 6600 GT in there.

Basically, they can work just fine, but if you're going to use that Asus board, then be prepared to do a good bit of experimentation to get the right combination.
 
8800GTS + Asus A8R32-MVP = works great right out of the box. No tweaking necessary to get them to play nice for me.
 
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