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

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May 12, 2014 6:03:21 AM

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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a c 205 V Motherboard
May 12, 2014 6:14:18 AM

Not probable. :) 
And you would need to REALLY move mountains to get it to work to ANY usable degree.
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a c 367 V Motherboard
May 12, 2014 6:15:13 AM

agreed, When I read the title, I would have said you'd be lucky to have 8 available GPU slots running at the right speed for starters.
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May 12, 2014 6:27:03 AM

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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a c 367 V Motherboard
May 12, 2014 6:28:28 AM

little much? You mean not at all!!....
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May 12, 2014 6:35:09 AM

Novuake said:
Not probable. :) 
And you would need to REALLY move mountains to get it to work to ANY usable degree.


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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May 12, 2014 6:49:27 AM

JWHasher said:
Novuake said:
Not probable. :) 
And you would need to REALLY move mountains to get it to work to ANY usable degree.


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


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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a c 205 V Motherboard
May 12, 2014 6:53:42 AM

"It doesn't make sense other than to prove it's possible." Well said. :) 
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