Radeon 9600XT combined Nforce2

[mokkema]

Hey, I'll make this short and sweet, as not to bore you guys/gals :-D, anyways. My old setup featured my Geforce4 TI4600 combined with my ABIT NF7 (NVidia Nforce2), for a nice nvidia combination. So, yesterday, my GPU on my 4600 blows, long story short, I researched and bought the replacement card; Radeon 9600XT. Question is, will the nforce2 and 9600XT have any conflict issues, or anything go wrong that I should know about? Hopefully not...but I figured I'd ask to postpone any future problems. Thanks!

 

[DerwenArtos12]

There shouldn't be any issues. I have a 9600pro on an N-Force 2 board. Why did you go with the XT? the newest 9600pro's have the same GPU. My 9600pros is a coupel months old aand I have it OCed to 470/350.

 

[mokkema]

Well, I went with the XT simply because I usually go with the best of the best (hence why I went with the 4600 when it came out, and that was by far worth it), and after doing some research on the XT, i realized it had small improvements over the pro, which was enough to pursuade me into getting it, knowing that either way I was going to be "downgrading" if you will...and I still wanted something for as good as I could afford at the time.

 

[MDE]

If you wanted the best of the best, why didn't you get a 9800XT? The 9600 will work in the NF2 board.

 

[yhelothar]

not really any hardware conflicts..
there'll more likely be driver conflicts.. usually with opengl games, from my own experiences

 

[Corporate Thug]

i've used practically evert ATi 9X00 with nforce 2 (same nf7) without any issues

 

[DannyBoy]

My 9100 likes my A7N8X Deluxe very much

Not a single driver conflict / problem.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
If you wanted the best of the best, why didn't you get a 9800XT? The 9600 will work in the NF2 board.

 

[Pete]

OK, so you realize that a current mainstream card won't be a complete improvement over your previously high-end 4600. The XT is a decent card for the price, especially with HL2 bundled, but it's outpaced by high-end cards like the 9700P and above and the FX 5900.

You shouldn't have trouble with your MB.