Systemboard chip-set VS video card.

legba

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If your system board has say, an ATI chip and an AMD chip (north or southbridge either way) does it matter if you use an Nvidia or ATI video card? I dont understand the significance.

I Am currently running an AMD setup with Nvidia video cards and my MB has Nforce4 Chipset on it. I want to upgrade to an AM+ MB but am unable to find one with Nvidia chipsets of anykind. They only have AMD and ATI chipsets. Do I have to abandon AMD and go Intel to do quad core the right way?

Any help would be appreciated

Legba
 

ghmage

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Here was an article that THG did on the subject, complete with benchmarks.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/04/04/does_chipset_to_gpu_matching_matter/
 

legba

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Sweet, thank you. I must have been searching wrong. GREAT info. I feel like I just pulled my brain out of a silly putty egg and tryed to press the whole front page of the news paper. =)