GPU and Motherboard Help

[TeddyKitagawa]

Hey all, I'm new here.

Well new as in joined the forums now but been reading Anand for years OOPS. Pardon my laziness there lol.

I used to always be a AMD fanboy but not really a fanboy but pseudo I guess since I pretty much always had AMD CPU's and ATi cards on ATi based chipsets.

I used to hear if you buy an AMD chipset; AMD now, and put an Nvidia card on an - ATi then AMD now - chipset it could cause issues. Is this true, or is this only if you try to run SLi on an ATi/AMD chipset board but if you run a single card you're fine?

My upcoming build is with the 1100T and I was thinking of the 6950 2GB or a 570GTX but not sure if the Nvidia will cause issues or not.

Sadly AMD doesn't have many Nvidia chipsets; which could cause many to jump to Intel and is bad on AMD's part, so it's an AMD chipset AM3 board. All I have left is the GPU in the build so wondering if I decide on the 570GTX it's fine and not stupid or am I locked into having to pretty much get an ATi, sorry, AMD GPU?

To spare someone from asking this I'll say now, as I'm sure this will be asked if I don't say, NOPE lol, I don't plan to run dual GPU's, I never do.

 

[mnewsham]

why get the 1100T? a quad core higher clocked is better for gaming. but no as long as you dont run two cards you shouldnt have issues.



welcome to the forum.

 

[3DVagabond]

Hi, and welcome. There's no problem running an nVidia GPU with AMD chipsets. If you prefer the 570 to the 6950, go for it.

why get the 1100T? a quad core higher clocked is better for gaming. but no as long as you dont run two cards you shouldnt have issues.



welcome to the forum.

He already has. It's the GPU he's asking about.

 

[TeddyKitagawa]

why get the 1100T? a quad core higher clocked is better for gaming. but no as long as you don't run two cards you shouldn't have issues.



welcome to the forum.

Thanks.

Yeah, that's what most tell me. I got that for encoding/editing work. I do that a lot too and I figure the small frame drop/hit is a necessary "evil" for a bit better with h264 encoding.

**EDIT**

I'm coming from a 9600 Agena first release so I'm sure I may cry a bit, or maybe not OOPS lol.

 

[TeddyKitagawa]

The thing is, the only game I have now that'll benefit from the 2GB of vRAM is Oblivion.

I run the 4096x4096 Texture Packs for all NPC's and your PC and have Qarl's Texture Pack and all this that basically takes the stock 1024x1024 Bethesda made and makes everything 4096x4096, Oblivion takes up more space than Vista even did with all the MODS I run O.O.

I'm sure the extra 720MB over the 570 would help, plus if I go that route I suppose if I convinced myself I could do multi-GPU then and get another 6950, but I never ran multi-GPU before, never needed too. But based on every other game the 570 is a bit better, not OMG better but better. I've always like AA on ATi cards more though.

Not that they may be too different now but Image Quality was always higher on ATi cards way back when which is why I always got them. Nvidia gave more frames but their images never looked as good to me.

Nowadays who knows if there really is a difference. But I'm sure 2GB may be fully eaten up with 4K texture maps. The slightly more than 1GB on the 570 may not be enough who knows.

 

[mnewsham]

The thing is, the only game I have now that'll benefit from the 2GB of vRAM is Oblivion.

I run the 4096x4096 Texture Packs for all NPC's and your PC and have Qarl's Texture Pack and all this that basically takes the stock 1024x1024 Bethesda made and makes everything 4096x4096, Oblivion takes up more space than Vista even did with all the MODS I run O.O.

I'm sure the extra 720MB over the 570 would help, plus if I go that route I suppose if I convinced myself I could do multi-GPU then and get another 6950, but I never ran multi-GPU before, never needed too. But based on every other game the 570 is a bit better, not OMG better but better. I've always like AA on ATi cards more though.

Not that they may be too different now but Image Quality was always higher on ATi cards way back when which is why I always got them. Nvidia gave more frames but their images never looked as good to me.

Nowadays who knows if there really is a difference. But I'm sure 2GB may be fully eaten up with 4K texture maps. The slightly more than 1GB on the 570 may not be enough who knows.

IMHO either card would suffice.

 

[MentalIlness]

The way I figure it is. With what you need, the 2 gig on the 6950 would be better. As far as AA, I think AMD / Nvidia is equal. But I have "read" that Nvidia has a "hair" bit better AF ?

At least I think that is right.

I run a single 6870 right now. Almost comparable to a 6950 if Id overclock it. And I think the IQ is great. Cant run my second one right now though, Since every one says, buy Intel....And when I do....My motherboard is recalled. LOL