socket 939 best chipset

[yeehii]

I would like to get a 939 mobo with a pci express socket for my graphics card. Am unsure about nvidia or ati yet, but like nvidia coz they do good driver support for linux.

I also like nvidia coz i remember reading that amd and nvidia were in some sort of partnership to help develop hardware that played well together. I also heard nvidia are v confident about their performance when it is running on the next/forthcoming/current? chipset nforce3 or 4 or whatever it is.

What have you heard about mobos with this sort of chipset?

Are they out now? They will be great wont they? Any reviews you have read?

I hope to hear from somebody!

 

[endyen]

I have an nforce3 board. It replaced an nforce2 board. I may be a little prejudiced.
Just because it's nforce, doesn't mean it will be a best performer. Just because it's not the best performer, doesn't mean it's not the best board.
I'm not a big supporter of PCI-exp, Icant see getting any benefit from it at all. I know people will say SLI, but I cant justify the price of a high end graphics card, when would I every get 2. Besides, SLI could be done on agp, if they wanted.
All the same, looks like we will be seeing boards with chipsets for it from Ati, Sis, Nvidia, and via, in the next couple of months. Excuse me if I dont cheer too loud, I just hate having Intel crap concepts jammed down my throat.

 

[Crashman]

The only company right now with a PCI-Express chipset for AMD is ATI. That's right, I said ATI. They've been shipping them a while now, but are waiting until boards are announced before they announce the chipset!

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[yeehii]

SLI, is that where we can put 2 graphics cards into one mobo? I think alienware are doing something like that now.

I am surprised ATI are doing that pci express mobo. But comparably priced nvidia cards are for sure going to run much better that ATI cards on mobos with nvidia nvida chipsets, right?

 

[endyen]

Fuuny thing, takes 2 nvidia cards in SLI, and overclocked, to beat a single X800PE that's been OCed. Maybe the 6800s are a little over-rated.
There are a lot of people who are running Radeons on nforce2 mobos. I'd take rumours of nvidia cards running better on nforce chipsets, with s grain of salt.