Nvidia NForce Chipset and ATI Vid Cards?

[4Mesh]

Does anyone out here have opinions on the pros and cons of using an Nvidia Based Motherboard but using an ATI Video card. I've beenhaving reservations about doing this.

I was looking at an ABit AN8 Ultra with an X-850 XT PCIx Vid.

Thanks in advance.

 

[biostud]

No problems whatsoever.

 

[suszterpatt]

Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

 

[ectx]

I have 6-7 such machines and only 1 problem - but I think I had a bad mb since I move the card to another machine with the same mb and there was no problem.

 

[imported_itr]

it's not like nvidia is going to make it uncompatible just b/c you're using their rival's video card. 🙂

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

:roll:

 

[akugami]

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

And what bugs would those be pray tell? I have multiple systems with NF4 mobos and ATI video cards in my house. None exhibit any bugs caused by ATI.

 

[BFG10K]

It works well. In fact I haven't had a single system reboot/crash on my X800XL since I've had it, unlike my 6800U before it.

 

[suszterpatt]

Originally posted by: akugami

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

And what bugs would those be pray tell? I have multiple systems with NF4 mobos and ATI video cards in my house. None exhibit any bugs caused by ATI.

The random signal loss while running 3D apps is not what I'd call a rarity.

 

[inthell]

wether you using ATI or nvidia gfx cards always use nforce motherboards they are better than via or sis

if you have an intel system then get intel or nforce both will be good, but nforce chipsets are limited on intel systems

thats my opinion

 

[CraigRT]

There are zero problems when using an ATI card on an nV motherboard.
Been there, done that.

 

[Tea Bag]

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

 

[forumposter32]

I don' t have problems. Of course I'm a little computer dumb sometimes and it took me a little while to find which drivers work better etc. But now that I'm up and running I feel like I'm in heaven. (I had Celeron 667 MHz & Geforce2 MX200 for five years.)

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: 4Mesh
Does anyone out here have opinions on the pros and cons of using an Nvidia Based Motherboard but using an ATI Video card. I've beenhaving reservations about doing this.

I was looking at an ABit AN8 Ultra with an X-850 XT PCIx Vid.

Thanks in advance.

no problems what-so-ever. using nvidia w/ ati has no bearing on what you are doing. even using a ati m/b with nvidia card is a no problem situation.

if people say that my nf4 m/b doesn't work with my ati video card, then they probably have atleast one defective unit.

this is why there are standards, and pci-e is a standard, just like agp, pci, scsi, etc.

 

[Topweasel]

The only thing that won't work now and may never work is Crossfire or SLI on the other companies boards. I think SLI has a little higher chance of woking on a Crossfire board then corssfire the other way. It just seems with the delay of their boards that their may be some inherent crosstalk (like the SLI bridge) that they still have to work out.

 

[suszterpatt]

Originally posted by: Tea Bag

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

www.google.com


I had that problem with my 9600XT and that's where I found the solution. Search for radeon signal loss and you should see a lot of people asking for help with their Radeon's crapping out while doing hardware intensive work. The solution varies, sometimes different drivers fix it, sometimes you'll need to change aparture size or AGP speed in the BIOS (I had to lower AGP speed to 4x on my comp to get rid of it).

I'm not really tech savvy, but I come across people having this problem almost regularly. It seems to be pot luck, too. Not saying that all cards will do this (you being the obvious example), but it can give the user quite some headaches.

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: Tea Bag

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

QFT.

I Have a NF7-S 2.0 and 9800 pro myself, they work fine in tandem.

However, for the record - nVidia cards have been shown to perform a bit better on nForce chipset boards. While ATI cards haven't shown any real difference regardless of the chipset they're running on.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Tea Bag

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

QFT.

I Have a NF7-S 2.0 and 9800 pro myself, they work fine in tandem.

However, for the record - nVidia cards have been shown to perform a bit better on nForce chipset boards. While ATI cards haven't shown any real difference regardless of the chipset they're running on.

please quantify "a bit"

 

[AMDZen]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Tea Bag

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

QFT.

I Have a NF7-S 2.0 and 9800 pro myself, they work fine in tandem.

However, for the record - nVidia cards have been shown to perform a bit better on nForce chipset boards. While ATI cards haven't shown any real difference regardless of the chipset they're running on.

please quantify "a bit"

Look around at benchmarks. I'd say its anywhere between 5-10 FPS on most games. You also have to understand that all the best performing motherboards use the nForce chipset any way. There are only a couple that don't, and they usually don't perform as well. Same with Intel boards, now that they have nForce chipsets, benchmarks have shown nVidia cards run a bit better on those boards versus the Intel chipset boards.

Sorry I can't be more specific then "a bit" - its not outrageous by any means.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: AMDZen

Originally posted by: Tea Bag

Originally posted by: suszterpatt
Nothing beyond ATI's inheritent bugs. 🙂

I've been running a 9800PRO on my NForce 2 ultra since last July and the system has been rock-solid stable through every series of driver.

In fact, I dont recall even hearing about the "random signal loss while running 3D apps" that you speak of. Links?

QFT.

I Have a NF7-S 2.0 and 9800 pro myself, they work fine in tandem.

However, for the record - nVidia cards have been shown to perform a bit better on nForce chipset boards. While ATI cards haven't shown any real difference regardless of the chipset they're running on.

please quantify "a bit"

Look around at benchmarks. I'd say its anywhere between 5-10 FPS on most games. You also have to understand that all the best performing motherboards use the nForce chipset any way. There are only a couple that don't, and they usually don't perform as well. Same with Intel boards, now that they have nForce chipsets, benchmarks have shown nVidia cards run a bit better on those boards versus the Intel chipset boards.

Sorry I can't be more specific then "a bit" - its not outrageous by any means.

i agree, just wondering if you had an actual %.

 

[Skyhanger]

Originally posted by: 4Mesh
Does anyone out here have opinions on the pros and cons of using an Nvidia Based Motherboard but using an ATI Video card. I've beenhaving reservations about doing this.

I was looking at an ABit AN8 Ultra with an X-850 XT PCIx Vid.

Thanks in advance.

Why not just buy a 7800GT instead. Much cheaper and much better performance.

Or you can wait till the x1k series of cards show up in 2 weeks and see how well they fare.