Is it possible to have both Quad-SLI and Quad-Crossfire on one motherboard?

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Could you get one motherboard with 4 PCIe 3.0 slots and have two NVidia Dual-GPU cards and two AMD Dual-GPU cards and choose between quad-sli and quad-crossfire depending on what game you wanted to play?

Of course this is completely impractical but if you had an unlimited budget could someone do this? Would the drivers conflict?
 
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It is possible for NVidia and AMD drivers to coexist peacefully. There are a number of sources for how to do that--running one NVidia and one AMD card in the same machine. However attempting to get 2 X dual-gpu for both manufacturers to run on the same machine, might be a little much.
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It is possible for NVidia and AMD drivers to coexist peacefully. There are a number of sources for how to do that--running one NVidia and one AMD card in the same machine. However attempting to get 2 X dual-gpu for both manufacturers to run on the same machine, might be a little much.
 
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Thanks everybody for the quick answers. However, I now know it is not impossible, so if I win the lottery in the future I will do everything I can to make it happen. Probably with watercooling and on a socket 2011 motherboard for the extra PCIe lanes
 
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If you won the lottery why bother, just buy two computer - one Nvidia, one AMD. Why give yourself a headache? If you had a motherboard able to accommodate multiple GPU and you need that much power fill it up with as many high end you can sli / xfire and stop compromising switching GPUs brands. It doesn't make sense other than to prove it's possible.
 
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