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Ok, I'll be getting a new computer. The motherboard I'm thinking of getting is an Asus A8N-SLI Premium (ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard). Thing is, it's an nVidia board and I will be gettting an ATi X1800XT. I was thinking off getting an ASUS A8R-MVP (which is Crossfire 200 compatible) but the place where I'm ordering it from can't get any in. My question is, will it make a difference if the mobo is meant for nVidia? Will it not work?

  • 12.20.2005 4:00 PM PDT
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I'm not sure about this, but I'd guess that it will make a difference. Don't ask me how, don't take my word for it, but that's just a preliminary guess.

Hopefully SLD will swing by and help. He'll know.

  • 12.20.2005 4:16 PM PDT
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My best guess is that the Crossfire mobo will allow me to use a Crossfire 2-GPU setup and maybe some minor improved performance with an ATi GPU, and the nVidia mobo will allow me too use the SLI technology (which I won't be since I'm getting an ATi video card) along with some minor performance for an nVidia GPU. Am I right or completely wrong?

  • 12.20.2005 4:42 PM PDT

* Pr: ĭnʹtərnĕts: "I hear there's rumors on the uh (pause), Internets...

I have an ASUS A8N SLI Motherboard coupled with an ATI X800XL, works flawlessly.


There is no VGA driver on the mobo, so it wouldn't make a difference.

  • 12.20.2005 4:51 PM PDT
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Darth Bob, I <3 you. That's what I'm going with.

  • 12.20.2005 5:09 PM PDT