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Title: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: tenakha on September 28, 2012, 03:04:07 PM I use a NVidea 260 for gaming, but want to do some mining too.
I have a spare graphics slot (used to run 2 x 260 in SLI). Could I install a Radeon HD 6970 and use that for mining in the same machine? Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: RaTTuS on September 28, 2012, 03:14:30 PM no I don't think you can - things get confused [well in windows anyway]
Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: crazyates on September 28, 2012, 03:51:11 PM Yes, you can.
Previous drivers didn't like to play nicely together, to where you couldn't have both on the same Windows installation. Now-a-days you can, and I know of several people on the forum here who do just that. Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: The-Real-Link on September 28, 2012, 11:29:51 PM You might have to switch your monitor plug for different maintenance tasks but you shouldn't have a problem.
I ran two 5970 and one 680 (in slot #7 of all places) as my primary for gaming and that's worked out mostly fine. Just had to move the display dongle for setting AB profiles then switch back. Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: arklan on September 29, 2012, 10:48:07 AM yep. i have without issue in windows 7 for over 6 months now. ati card already paid for itself.
Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: 420 on September 30, 2012, 04:50:55 AM I've used a 5970 and gtx 570 in same mobo and got mining the 5970 but only one core got utilized I believe
Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: sosad on October 02, 2012, 10:45:46 AM You can.. I have done it for 2 years .
Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: sLide. on October 02, 2012, 01:57:57 PM Short of not having funds to buy a similar brand, why would you want too?
Title: Re: Can I mix nVidea and Radeon on same m/board? Post by: RaTTuS on October 02, 2012, 02:54:25 PM well ATI for mining and Nvidia for gaming ...
^ and I was never able to get it to work when I tried in windows but no worries now |