Asus Z170-P D4 with an Nvidia GTX 970?

[PerfectSnowball]

I'm in the process of building my first PC. I've went for a Skylake i5 6600K processor, a single Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 970 G1, 16GB of DDR4 RAM and an Asus Z170-P motherboard which has just arrived.

As I'm pretty knew to all of this I didn't really consider the possibility that some motherboards would be specifically for AMD and others for Nvidia, and I appear to have bought a motherboard that's supposed to be used with AMD, despite my GPU being Nvidia.

Before I send it back I thought I'd seek an expert opinion on the matter. Is there any saving grace, or is the situation as straight forward as I fear in that I need to buy a different motherboard?

 

[alexoiu]

"I didn't really consider the possibility that some motherboards would be specifically for AMD and others for Nvidia, and I appear to have bought a motherboard that's supposed to be used with AMD, despite my GPU being Nvidia. "
Where have you read it?

The board should work just fine with NVidia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6w9E3ux7M

 

[Gam3r01]

Motherboards (and their manufacturers) dont care what card you use. All that would do is hurt sales.

 

[PerfectSnowball]

Where have you read it?

The board should work just fine with NVidia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6w9E3ux7M

A friend told me that it only supports Crossfire, which as far as I can tell is AMD's GPU technology. So... I'm fine with this motherboard? Wow! Thanks.

 

[Gam3r01]

That does not mean its AMD specific.
Motherboards require at least two x8 lanes to support SLI (an nvidia technology), where crossfire can be enabled on x4 lanes. (Note, this will give you terrible performance, but it will turn on)

 

[alexoiu]

For one card you can use either AMD or NVidia.
For more cards, indeed, only Crossfire supported.