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ATI vs Nvidia on an Intel machine

February 11, 2008 7:46:41 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I have WWW Link this motherboard, and I was wondering if there's any difference between using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card on it, besides SLI. The board doesn't say anything about supporting SLI, so I was just wondering what's better, SLI or Crossfire.

Also, will VIVO let me capture video?

I'm kind of confused.
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Reply #1 February 11, 2008 8:03:36 PM
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WWW LINK - Gigabyte That says CrossFire, so you'll need an ATi.
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Reply #2 February 11, 2008 8:04:36 PM
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since it uses an intel chipset, i'd say it supports crossfire (ati) you can use an nvidia card if you want, tho. you just won't be able to get sli using two of them. take into account, i'm not an expert on the intel x38 chipset but i'm pretty sure it does not support sli.
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Reply #3 February 11, 2008 8:20:42 PM
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Is there a reason that Intel doesn't support SLI?
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Reply #4 February 11, 2008 8:21:46 PM
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WWW LINK - Gigabyte That says CrossFire, so you'll need an ATi.


A single nVidia card will work, you just cant run 2 nVidia cards on that motherboard as it is for running dual ATi cards.
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Reply #5 February 11, 2008 8:25:39 PM
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intel chips do crossfire, nvidia chips do sli
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Reply #6 February 12, 2008 11:41:15 AM
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intel chips do crossfire, nvidia chips do sli


That's interesting, because doesn't AMD own ATI? or is it just Nvidia being stingy only wanting their chipset to work with their cards?
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Reply #7 February 12, 2008 12:13:28 PM
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Reply #8 February 12, 2008 1:38:45 PM
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that's what I wondered, if it was something like that, political B$. That's all right though... ATi does just as good as Nvidia, as far as I can see.
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Reply #9 February 17, 2008 12:44:56 AM
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On Vista, ATI is just as good as nVidia -- they both have equally flaky drivers. Though I'm beginning that its a Microsoft problem, since every graphics board manufacturer I can think of also has flaky Vista drivers. And a lot of scanners, and printers, and modems, and network cards, etc, etc, etc...hopefully, MS will improve this situation in SP1...
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Reply #10 February 17, 2008 1:02:16 AM
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No difference between using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card but better get Nvidia because All GeForce 8 Cards Will Run PhysX while ATI no and if u want sli u need to get NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI (last chipset)
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Reply #11 February 17, 2008 1:15:20 AM
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No difference between using an ATI or Nvidia graphics card but better get Nvidia because All GeForce 8 Cards Will Run PhysX while ATI no and if u want sli u need to get NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI (last chipset)


lol...
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Reply #12 February 19, 2008 10:57:52 AM
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I just installed Vista Ultimate 64 on my machine with the ATi 3870 512 GDDR4 card, and the drivers worked great, so far at least. I haven't tried playing anything very intense yet, though.
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Reply #13 February 19, 2008 10:59:06 AM
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What's PhysX, anyway?
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Reply #14 May 3, 2011 2:09:01 PM
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It's nothing if your not gaming with physx enabled pc games

 

http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html

 

 

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Reply #15 May 4, 2011 8:25:11 PM
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scorpNZ...3 year old question...

Better late then never.

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