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Old January 4th 06, 04:57 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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Default ATI-based mobo isn't compatible with a nVidia graphics card?

I don't own such a board, but my instinctive reaction is: bull****.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2617

This is a review of the Asus A8R-MVP board. It's not identical to the MSI
board by any means, but it uses the Xpress 200 Crossfire northbridge. One of
the graphics cards in the test was a 7800GTX. That ought to have stressed
things a bit.

A little Googling found a test of a different make of nVidia 6600 card on
your mainboard:

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/xfx_ge...r2/index.shtml

I can't guess why the MSI tech would give you such a line. I suppose that it
would get rid of you for a while, and maybe the problem would go away when
you installed new graphics drivers.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Brian Kendig" wrote in message
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I posted here recently about a problem I was having: on my new MSI
RS480M2-IL motherboard (based on the ATI Xpress 200 chipset), my new
MSI NX6600-TD256E (GeForce 6600) video card is hanging after a few
minutes of playing a 3D game. I contacted MSI tech support about the
problem, and this was their response:

"This is normal since the on board ATI chipset does not like any Nvidia
chipset based video cards. You can use ATI video cards (PCI-E) or
change to different mb with different chipset. This is an unofficial
problem for ATI chipset on the mb and not caused by MSI."

My question is: is this tech blowing smoke, or is this a real
incompatibility? Do ATI-based motherboards really have a known problem
with nVidia-based graphics cards?