Mixing manufacturer chips (AMD/NVIDIA)

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No_Smoking

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I did a search on this but I didn't really get a complete clear answer on the outcome.

Is there any significance in matching/mismatching manufacturers? I've heard answers in both directions. "It only matters for SLi/Crossfire, you're fine to mix as long as you use a single Video Card." and "No it doesn't matter at all."

Which is true?

What exactly would happen if I had an AMD chipset and wanted to run two NVIDIA cards in SLi? Or vise versa (Intel chipset with AMD GPU)?

Sorry if this is a dead horse, I just wanted to get a final, informative response.
Thanks for reading!
 
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You can mix and match as much as you want. You can't SLI/Crossfire an AMD GPU with an Nvidia GPU obviously, but that's about it.

Plenty of Intel chipset boards out there that have Crossfire support and just as many AMD chipset mobos that have SLI support. Hell, I'm running one right now with two GTX660s.
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You can mix and match as much as you want. You can't SLI/Crossfire an AMD GPU with an Nvidia GPU obviously, but that's about it.

Plenty of Intel chipset boards out there that have Crossfire support and just as many AMD chipset mobos that have SLI support. Hell, I'm running one right now with two GTX660s.
 
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It depends entirely on the chipset, they all support either brand running 1 card equally. However, if you want to run sli or crossfire, the chipset must support those features. Some support crossfire, some support sli, and some support both, and some dont support either one. You have to check the specs for what you want.
 
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