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Now that one you'll have to explain and backup with at least 2 exhaustive articles

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Intel, Microsoft and Nvidia are thick as thieves. AMD and ATI are now one and the same. There are problems enough as it is, so I try and lessen the problems by not mixing what is now obviously becoming two seperate camps. But by all means mix and match your AMD chipset drivers with the drivers from bitter rival Nvidia. Or mix your Intel chipsets with AMD drivers, it is entirely up to you.

This doesn't just apply to drivers. The two camps are also moving in seperate directions in the hardware department as well. Many memory modules are becoming specific to either Intel or AMD chipsets. And as the gulf widens the dirty tricks are becoming more and more ransid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8047546.stm

But do as you wish, but I try and keep things as simple as possible and don't try and temp fate.