Richo wrote:Exactly how 1 spelling error can do so much....
Nvidia + intel
Ati + amd
That's how you build a computer from early 2000 till r […]
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Tetrium wrote:
It might be due to that, but we know that that particular case has nothing to do with VIA, but more to do with nv & Ati 😜
Exactly how 1 spelling error can do so much....
Nvidia + intel
Ati + amd
That's how you build a computer from early 2000 till roughly 2007
The problem was compatibilty and cooling. Geforce cards ran quite hot in the day and combine that with a athlon and you have yourself a heater for a computer.
No, it is not.
I've used 4 AMD + NV systems for several years, all 4 using AMD CPUs (3200+ and 3500+) and NV graphics cards (GF6800 and 7600GS) and all 4 ran pretty much rock-solid.
I've also build several other systems using both AMD CPUs and NV graphics in all sorts of combinations (mostly using those MX's and slower Athlon XPs and Thunderbirds).
There is no such rule that one shouldn't build a rig combining NV and VIA (or AMD) when it comes to building a 2000-2007-vintage rig, nor is there for Intel + Ati. There simply is none.....maybe except for the NV chipsets, but I never used those NV chipsets as I always happened to end up with boards using chipsets from other manufacturers.
The heat argument doesn't seem plausible as well, both NV and Ati cards had (across their entire inventory from low-end to high-end) roughly similar thermal dissipation (with very large difference when going from lowest-budget to highest-end) and netburst had even higher thermal dissipation compared to Athlon and Athlon XP. Compared to graphics cards, chipsets don't put out a lot of heat anyway, so that shouldn't really matter.
Cooling isn't as much of a concern these days as it was back in those days, as cooling solutions have vastly improved (HSFs and system cases in particular).
It might've been some compatibility issue, but I assumed this was when using Ati graphcs cards and NV chipsets. But all my systems which matched NV AGP and AMD CPU were pretty much not with more issues compared to AMD CPUs and Ati AGP. All of these rigs were roughly 2000 to 2007 tech.
So to me, rules such as "don't mix Ati + NV and don't mix Intel + Ati" seem kinda like rubbish to me.
Or maybe I'm missing some vital point here?