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ati and nvidia cards on the same MB?
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The motherboard will never support that.
SLI = nvidia
Crossfire = ATI
motherboards will support one or the other. I.E: my maximus forumla is a x38 chipset so will only crossfire ATi cards, but can also run a single nvidia card
on the other hand, you can have a 7xx series nforce motherboard (and P-series?few too many beers
) and that will run two nvidia cards in SLI and a singlle ATI card
Regards to the 8400 you will not have any issues, as long as the motherboard supports the type of socket (pins on the cpu/motherboard)
Dont know about the third monitor though
SLI = nvidia
Crossfire = ATI
motherboards will support one or the other. I.E: my maximus forumla is a x38 chipset so will only crossfire ATi cards, but can also run a single nvidia card
on the other hand, you can have a 7xx series nforce motherboard (and P-series?few too many beers
) and that will run two nvidia cards in SLI and a singlle ATI cardRegards to the 8400 you will not have any issues, as long as the motherboard supports the type of socket (pins on the cpu/motherboard)
Dont know about the third monitor though
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Im assuming there will be tons of issues, they arent built to work together, get another 4870 and go crossfire
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Give it a go and find out? Only way to find out
@ PaulyD, i don't think he was intending to crossfire/sli them
Well he said should I buy another ati card so he was on the right track for crossfire
i will not buy another 4870 just to run the desktop on
and crossfire is out of the question as i dont do much gaming.
the card 8400 im talking about is the 8400GS http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail not the E8400
my friend has offered me a x800 that he has spare, would that be a better choice?
and crossfire is out of the question as i dont do much gaming.
the card 8400 im talking about is the 8400GS http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...GS 256MB DDR2 HDTV/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail not the E8400
my friend has offered me a x800 that he has spare, would that be a better choice?
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Although I don't run the cards in question, I have a 3870 and a 7600GT in my machine (both with latest drivers) and I've honestly had ZERO issues doing this! XP though - doesn't Vista have some beef with mixed video cards?
because i wasnt intending on buying one since i thought i could borrow it off a friend since he had a pcie card free, but instead hes going to offer a x800 to me. to be fair, he is borrowing my x1900 and x1950
