Can I run a 9800gt and a gtx460 in SLI mode ?

I have an AM3 motherboard with two PCI-E x16 slots, which has an ATI HD 4290 video card onboard(supports crossfire,but I don't have another ATI gpu).|||No you cannot. In order for SLI to work the core, the memory interface, the number of shaders, and the type of video RAM has to be the same. Basically you need two of the same card. Also not all boards support both SLI *and* Crossfire.



I'll add that over the years, I've had SLI'd 7600GTs' , SLI'd 7900GTs', and SLI'd 8800GT's. And currently have SLI'd GTX 470's I've never had any issues with SLI. It's always worked as advertised for me.|||AMD supports Crossfire and CrossfireX but not SLI. If your board has on board graphics and CrossfireX if you put in an ATI card you can "enhance" you "card" graphics with the on board graphics as that's what CrossfireX does. The Nvidia cards can SLI IF they are the same ( 2, 9800's OR 2, 460s only if your board supports SLI) You can mix ATI card in the same series in Crossfire. In essence, you cant use SLI in a Crossfire board (2 Nvidia cards) you can't mix the series (9800 +460) You can use ONE Nvidia card but it wont get the benefit of CrossfireX|||You cant combine two different video cardss with SLI.. iwouldn't recommendd it anyway.. Sli has difficulty when running some games and its really more of a pain in the *** then a benifit|||No SLI needs same graphic cards.