Would an nVidia chipset limit the performace of an ATi GPU?

[Fry750]

Hi all.

I have the 680i chipset and was wondering if it would hamper the performance of a 2900XT if bought one?

Thanks

 

[Tute]

Nope, no effect what-so-ever.

 

[jaykay]

Nope it wont hamper performance.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Not at all, but there is talk of it doing so further down the line though, ATi cards will only run faster on ATi chipset boards, and Nvidia cards on theirs, don't know when thats starting though.

Ahh here it was, the next chipsets according to FUD, so have a bucket of salt at the ready :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3629&Itemid=1

 

[Tute]

Not at all, but there is talk of it doing so further down the line though, ATi cards will only run faster on ATi chipset boards, and Nvidia cards on theirs, don't know when thats starting though.

Ahh here it was, the next chipsets according to FUD, so have a bucket of salt at the ready.http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3629&Itemid=1

That's unbelievable.

Surely that would come under "Unfair Practices"?

 

[Jokester]

Pretty sure the 680i already has it in.

Jokester

 

[gareth170]

sounds far to me. if u have a nVidia motherboard and a nVidia gpu its far that it'll give it a boost.. same with ati motherboard and gpu.. i think it'll be good...

 

[555BUK]

A radeon 2900Poo I bought flatly refused to work in two NVidia chipset mobo's I owned (650i and 680i), but worked fine in two Intel chipsets. Y think I was just unlucky.

 

[Fry750]

Hmmm, interesting stuff guys. Why is it that AMD now own ATi, so it makes sense that their boards with supports Crossfire and have ATi chipsets, but why do Intel boards only support Crossfire? Is it Intel's or nVidia's doing?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

AMD were going down the pan so they took over ATi to save themselves, so now when they go, ATi goes with em.

 

[Jokester]

but why do Intel boards only support Crossfire? Is it Intel's or nVidia's doing?

It's Nvidia's doing as far as I'm aware as Intel have been keen to get a license for SLI (the hardware doesn't need to do anything special) for their chipsets recently.

Intel's Skulltrail mobo will almost certainly feature SLI technology but it won't be cheap sadly.

Jokester

 

[jaykay]

Hmmm, interesting stuff guys. Why is it that AMD now own ATi, so it makes sense that their boards with supports Crossfire and have ATi chipsets, but why do Intel boards only support Crossfire? Is it Intel's or nVidia's doing?

Nvidias doing. They wont give Intel the lience to make a sli motherboard. Kinda werid as you would expect it to be intel/nvidia vs amd/ati

 

[steve258]

Nope AFAIK, 2900XT working perfectly fine here on NV 650i SLI. But sometimes I still can't help wondering if the performance is better on an Intel chipset.

As for Nvidia not giving SLI license to Intel, it makes sense as NV is obviously keen to promote their own 650/680 SLI chipsets. AMD/ATI needs Intel to support crossfire because their own C2D chipset, the R600 was already outdated the moment it was released, and there was only the 1 model from DFI that ever featured R600.

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

2900pro works damn fine on my 590SLI AMD mobo.