My impending desktop (Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H, uses the AMD 780G chipset) has an onboard ATI Radeon 3200 (not sure how much video memory), but I've installed an nVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT card (EVGA's 512-P3-N954-TR with 512MB). Since I'm going to be starting from scratch with this desktop, is there any way to set things up so that I can just download the most recent drivers for both and then remove the older versions from my computer? I do have a BIOS option to choose which of the two to use when powering up.
Also, does anyone know if either of the 'joining' things, i.e. CrossfireX or SLI, would be compatible, i.e. partnering the onboard ATI with the nVIDIA?
Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
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Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
IIRC there is some third-party software that can link a ATi card with an nVidia one, but I dont know how well it works. Other than that chips from either brand cannot be used together in a crossfire/SLI setup.Edward Yee wrote:Also, does anyone know if either of the 'joining' things, i.e. CrossfireX or SLI, would be compatible, i.e. partnering the onboard ATI with the nVIDIA?
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
Crossfire and SLI both require identical video cards. The only real method I know of for combining ATI and Nvidia cards is using the NVidia card as a dedicated PhysX processor, using the method of this post over at HardOCP; the ATI card remains the dedicated GPU. As for the drivers, all you'll need to do is periodically check ATI and NVidia's sites for driver updates. Uninstall the old ones, then install the new packages you download.
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
I thought that Crossfire could use two different cards.
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It can.weemadando wrote:I thought that Crossfire could use two different cards.
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
But only if the manufacturers are the same.weemadando wrote:I thought that Crossfire could use two different cards.
There's a company working on it but nothing release.atg wrote:IIRC there is some third-party software that can link a ATi card with an nVidia one, but I dont know how well it works.
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
D'oh! The intent was for ArmA 2/high-end games to run off of the nVIDIA card, everything else can use the ATI in the motherboard (I'm told a no-no for ArmA 2).
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Re: Doing a neat two-graphics-adapter install
Ghetto edit: I'd also like to uninstall the Windows-default version of the nVIDIA driver and maybe the default ATI driver, but now the installer for the nVIDIA driver beta (195.81, the WHQL version was 195.62) isn't detecting the nVIDIA card. 
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