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at0micsmurf   12-11-2007 at 04:52:12 AM

I'm just wondering, if I buy an SLI or crossfire ready motherboard, does that mean I can only an nvidia card on an SLI mobo, and ATI on a crossfire board? Or can you use any PCI-E card in the single 16x slot?

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cfvh600   12-11-2007 at 06:08:17 AM
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You can use any brand video card in any motherboard with a PCI-e slot. If it's a SLI board then you have to have 2 x Nvidia cards in it to run SLI. The same for Crossfire = 2 x ATI cards. For a single card setup it doesn't matter which brand of card you've got.It will work.

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at0micsmurf   12-11-2007 at 04:42:42 PM
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Thanks. I feel like such a newbie, but better to ask questions an look thick than not bother at all :)

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cfvh600   12-11-2007 at 05:00:05 PM
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You're welcome. I'm also a noob so.... :-)

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chookman   12-11-2007 at 11:43:13 PM
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This question actually gets asked alot as well, so dont feel that bad...

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