Graphics companies don't screw each other

The site further found no ill-effect with putting an Nvidia board on an AMD chipset, or an Intel chipset, or putting an ATI GPU on an Intel chipset.

There was no discernible benefit between matching up Nvidia GPUs and chipsets, and the same was true of ATI - save for enabling CrossFire and SLI, obviously.

Enthusiasts have long been befuddled by the massive amount of combinations of hardware out there, and the situation has been further confused by the AMD buyout of ATI and the renaming of chipsets, and the awkward position that AMD's Intel chipsets have consequently found themselves in.

But this testing shows that, if you're not bothered about dual GPU, you can quite happily pick whatever GPU you want to go with whatever motherboard chipset you want. For what it's worth, the testing showed that Intel's P965 chipset performs better than both RD600 and 680i when it comes to memory bandwidth.

Are we entering a new era of peace and reconciliation? Not likely. µ