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ATI 4850 with a Nvidia 7900GTX

sir-les-mp

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Ok ive been lurking around the forum now for a while advised and been advised
I've finally decided that im going for an ATI 4850 shortly as thats all my budget can handle at present.
I've read a few posts where user's have bought either a new GTX260 or GTX 280 and kept there old nvidia card in the pc to handle Physix's Calcs in games.
So my Question is this would this also work when using an ATI card as the main graphics card or would the system just continually crash due to drivers fighting with each other

I use both Vista and XP on my PC
the rest of my system is as my sig
 
7900GTX can't be used as a Physics card, it is only 8 series and up as the card has to have CUDA support.

As for using it with an ATi card and an nvidia for physx, no idea.
 
Some one here claims he runs it on XP.

I don't see how though as many peeps get major crap even trying to swap from Nvidia to ATI or vice versa all due to drivers (they run Drivercleaner and sometimes still need a Full Format.).
 
The grand plan will be to have two of the 4850's running in my system
but i know this cant be done on my current system as i have an SLI Mobo
that will wait till i have the funds to upgrade to a Quad core system
i havent decided whether to go with an intel quad system as they clock better or an AMD system as they appear to be more affordable at present for me at least.
was just hoping i could run the 2 card together till i can afford my full system upgrade
 
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sir-les-mp said:
it would be simpler in the sense i would just be updating my current nvidia drivers
however i thought the 4850 out perfoms 2x 8800gt's in sli from the countless reviews ive seen
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Not by a lot, and 8800's can be had for a good £30/card cheaper than 4850's.
 
ffallic said:
Why not just get 2x 512mb 8800gt?
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Dont see the point if he will be upgrading mobo/ CPU as the current Nvidia chipsets seem to be quite average at best.

As the 7900GTX has no PhysX support you should just grab a 4850 for now as it will be a huge boost for you anyway.
 
Why cant there just be a mobo that supports both SLI and ATi Crossfire would make things easier for us that way we could change our graphics setup withou having to change our mobo as well.
 
sir-les-mp said:
Why cant there just be a mobo that supports both SLI and ATi Crossfire would make things easier for us that way we could change our graphics setup withou having to change our mobo as well.
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There is, the Intel Skulltrail board

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...id=701&catid=5&subcat=205&name=Intel D5400XS "Skulltrail"%20Intel%205400%20eATX%20(Socket%20771)%20PCI-Express%20FBDIMM%20DDR2%20Motherboard

Get it whilst you still can, or alternatively wait for the X58 boards to come out that will be SLI certified.

It's only politics between the players that prevents it from happening.
 
helmutcheese said:
Some one here claims he runs it on XP.

I don't see how though as many peeps get major crap even trying to swap from Nvidia to ATI or vice versa all due to drivers (they run Drivercleaner and sometimes still need a Full Format.).
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That was me. Don't have the 8600GT anymore as I got shut of it but I could run the screen off either card. Didn't uninstall the Nvidia drivers just removed the card and put the ATI card in, installed drivers, worked... put the 8600GT back in (second slot this time) and it was working. This was before the PhysX drivers sadly and on SP2.
 
You can run an ATi and NV card in the same PC, with the NV card for physX, there is a thread on it over at techpowerup where one of the members has it working and they're in the process of testing it. As far as I know they're suposed to be doing a write up on it for today. Unfortunately I haven't got a link for it, but I think the person is called 'fitseries'.
 
mdjmcnally said:
There is, the Intel Skulltrail board

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...id=701&catid=5&subcat=205&name=Intel D5400XS "Skulltrail"%20Intel%205400%20eATX%20(Socket%20771)%20PCI-Express%20FBDIMM%20DDR2%20Motherboard

Get it whilst you still can, or alternatively wait for the X58 boards to come out that will be SLI certified.

It's only politics between the players that prevents it from happening.
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£411.24 the only problem there is i wish to spend less than that for my full upgrade cpu mobo mem and grahics card
 
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kylew said:
You can run an ATi and NV card in the same PC, with the NV card for physX, there is a thread on it over at techpowerup where one of the members has it working and they're in the process of testing it. As far as I know they're suposed to be doing a write up on it for today. Unfortunately I haven't got a link for it, but I think the person is called 'fitseries'.
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you mean this one, was just about to post this too,

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=72035
 
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