With an SLI motherboard, can you use two different PCIe cards if they are not in SLI?

[Glendor]

I want to use one PCIe 7850GX2 nVidia card for primary graphics, and one PCIe ATI All-in-Wonder X600 for multimedia.

Will this work?

Can't seem to find the answer in Google; probably not wording my search right.

Thanks,
Glendor...

 

[JAG87]

you are definetely going to have problems with the drivers. 2 nvidia or 2 ati cards would work just fine.

 

[Glendor]

In a way, that's good news. Drivers problems can be experimented with, and may (or may not) be resolved. I was afraid that putting two non-matching PCIe video cards in a SLI motherboard would cause a meltdown, or something just as bad.

Anybody else have any ideas about this idea of mine?

Glendor...

 

[aka1nas]

It will work with XP with some potential driver difficulty. Vista does not support using multiple display adapters that use a different WDDM driver at all, so in that case you would not be able to mix ATI and Nvidia cards.

 

[Glendor]

Okay, so it sounds like it's possible if I stick to WinXP, and I would have better luck if I use ATI for both cards.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[coolpurplefan]

How about a video card and another device in the other slot? Or, wait, does that exist?