I'm looking at a motherboard that goes on about its SLi bits. Can anyone tell me though, even though it is designed for SLi (I have no intention of using two cards atm) coudl I use an ATi card? SLi is the nVidia standard but does this impact what I could put in the PCI-e x16 slot?
This will spark a war but what does everyone think? SLi or Crossfire?
2006-08-04 12:41:00 · 6 answers · asked by Master_Of_The_Web 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
no u can put a single ATI card
and u can even put 2 ATI cards" but it will not be crossfire off course"
u can put 1 Nvidia and 1 ATI
but all of this u will work with the 2 cards as stand alone, there will be no multi GPU or any thing like that
and about SLI or CrossFire
will i'm an ATI fan boy
but i must say that in the mid range and "like X1600 and Geforce 7600GT" and in the lower part of the high end "like 7800GT and X1800 pro" the SLI will win
but in the very high range like"7900GTX and ATIX1900XT" ATI seems to know how to win in ease
i always say
if u r gonna get a very high end graphic card then ATI is the key
but if u gonna get any thing lower then go with Nvidia
2006-08-04 12:52:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can use an ATI card with no problems. I'm doing it now in one of my machines.
With that said, why not go crossfire if you are going to go ATI?
You may change your mind in the future and its keeping your options open is a good thing.
EDIT:
I personally am an SLI fan but thats only because its a more mature standard and many of the bugs have been worked out.
2006-08-04 12:45:20 · answer #2 · answered by Jim R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, you can use any single card on the sli board but you should get an nvidia sli card for it ... who knows u might run across another one later and wish you COULD go sli .... same if you get a crossfire board ... get an ati card for it just in case you change ur mind later ur halfway there .... anyway im running sli 7800gts' and it rocks ... its roughly the output of the very latest 7950 cards.
2006-08-04 13:43:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as the card you have is PCI or PCI.E it should work with that MOBO, but check the sellers spec first because most PCIE mobo's will accept standard PCI g/cards. Plz remeber to access the basic input output system and turn down the acceleration if you use a standard PCI card unless you want it fried.
2006-08-04 12:52:29 · answer #4 · answered by Fez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ebay
2006-08-06 06:01:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh what i wish i could tell u but wtf lol sorry
2006-08-04 12:44:56 · answer #6 · answered by kew(q) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋