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anyone know of any good motherboards that can take a Phenom 2 x6 or x4 and a geforce gtx 460.

iv always built AMD plus Nvidia setups and am not feeling to inclined to change now even know most mobo's seem more geared to doing Amd + Ati or Intel + Nvidia.
 
Well, the reason you see more AMD + (Now dead) ATI is because AMD owns both. So it makes sense that there are more AMD+ATI boards out there, and the natural gravitation for nVidia is to work with Intel (which, if you read the report of how those two settle all their lawsuits against each other, is a strong sign those two will be cooperating more).

Have you tried using Newegg and its advanced search function? You can tell what CPUs the motherboard should have, and what kind of video cards to use.
 
There are a lot of good boards out there that will meet those specifications.

What's your budget?
 
If you want to go AMD CPU the best thing for you to do is to go AMD GPU (Use to be ATI, but is renamed) The prices are comparable.

If your set on the ONE Video card and dont want to SLI, as you wont be able to on a AMD MoBo. Then one Nvidia GPU Card will be fine. (TY Shadows5631 Showing the illusive AMD Hybrid boards)

Id say go for the ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme - MoBo
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T - CPU
MSI GeForce GTX 460 Hawk Talon Attack 810MHZ - Nvidia GPU
XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition 940MHZ - AMD GPU

Now I dont know your price range. So if you come up with a number that will work for what you plan on trying to build the system for, also include a link to a local retailer so it can be more accurate. Good luck.
 
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budget is below 200 and who ever says i should go with a amd gpu it's not going to happen i run several operating systems and nvidia cards always just worked and i do some 3d work and cuda can be very very useful for getting things rendered out at a decent pace.

and i am looking at amd chips since spec wise there are cheaper then there intel competitors and historically before amd bought ati i always went with amd+NV setups.
 
Budget of $200 for 460 + Phen II X6 or X4 and a mobo. Hmm. maybe 300 -350 with the right sources. Would help if we all knew where you were buying at.
 
Passerby said:
budget is below 200 and who ever says i should go with a amd gpu it's not going to happen i run several operating systems and nvidia cards always just worked and i do some 3d work and cuda can be very very useful for getting things rendered out at a decent pace.

and i am looking at amd chips since spec wise there are cheaper then there intel competitors and historically before amd bought ati i always went with amd+NV setups.
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I am suggesting that you go with an AMD chipset (which work fine in linux), you can still use an nVidia GPU though.

In that price range, i would go with the Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128441&Tpk=Gigabyte 890FX

excellent overclocker, plenty of nice features. reasonable price
 
Yoyort said:
Budget of $200 for 460 + Phen II X6 or X4 and a mobo. Hmm. maybe 300 -350 with the right sources. Would help if we all knew where you were buying at.
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200 for the Mobo not the whole thing.

for the whole thing i got most things priced out and will prolly spend about 1000 pluss a crap load on some additional gear.
 
Here, I'll throw up my nVidia chipset rant:

Reasons why you should not buy an nVidia chipset:

1. All current AMD Nforce boards are based on chipsets from 2007, 4 years ago! (source). The 980a is just a rebrand of the 780a.

If you honestly think that technology has not advanced in 4 years, then you should just go buy yourself a Commodore64, and be happy.

2. nVidia chipsets consistently run hotter than their AMD counterparts. Being an older chip, it is based on an older process (pretty sure it is either 90 or 130nm, but i can't find a source), which in turn, leads to a larger die size. This creates more heat output. By comparison, 890FX is based on a 65nm process, and the die is considerably smaller. source

3. In general, 980a boards overclock much worse than 890 or even 790 based boards. Comparitively, there are very few records made with 980a boards.

4. all of the 980a boards currently availible completely SUCK. The MSI one is ok, but the ASUS one is riddled with problems, such as north bridge overheating, and an unusually high DOA percentage.

Now, some might say "But i want SLI !!!1" well, to them I say:
SLI hack works for most people.

just my $1.02
 
reflex99 said:
Here, I'll throw up my nVidia chipset rant:

Reasons why you should not buy an nVidia chipset:

1. All current AMD Nforce boards are based on chipsets from 2007, 4 years ago! (source). The 980a is just a rebrand of the 780a.

If you honestly think that technology has not advanced in 4 years, then you should just go buy yourself a Commodore64, and be happy.

2. nVidia chipsets consistently run hotter than their AMD counterparts. Being an older chip, it is based on an older process (pretty sure it is either 90 or 130nm, but i can't find a source), which in turn, leads to a larger die size. This creates more heat output. By comparison, 890FX is based on a 65nm process, and the die is considerably smaller. source

3. In general, 980a boards overclock much worse than 890 or even 790 based boards. Comparitively, there are very few records made with 980a boards.

4. all of the 980a boards currently availible completely SUCK. The MSI one is ok, but the ASUS one is riddled with problems, such as north bridge overheating, and an unusually high DOA percentage.

Now, some might say "But i want SLI !!!1" well, to them I say:
SLI hack works for most people.

just my $1.02
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thing is i want what i know works and is reliable with my uses and cuda is a huge timesaver since it can do some things way faster than the cpu ever could. and NV stuff has always worked flawless with all the OS's i run.

and really i dont care if i got this hours best tech i work on making games art assets for the UE3/UDK and the source engine both of which are brand new. and i work in audio post-production which for that i olny really needs lots of ram and pci express since i do all audio processing on Pro tools HD cores and UAD cards.

and the requirement wanst a NV chip-set just something compatible with a NV GPU.

and also for the whole old tech argumeant tell me what FPS games you play both CoD games and source games are heavily based on the old ID quake tech.
 
I'm quite certain that any board you buy will be compatible with any card you get. The only problem you'd encounter is if you wanted to SLI on an AMD chipset and your SLI hack didn't work somehow. If you're just looking for an AMD board that you can stick one nVidia card into, then any board will work. It's completely irrelevant.
 
a pet rock said:
I'm quite certain that any board you buy will be compatible with any card you get. The only problem you'd encounter is if you wanted to SLI on an AMD chipset and your SLI hack didn't work somehow. If you're just looking for an AMD board that you can stick one nVidia card into, then any board will work. It's completely irrelevant.
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This.
 
Passerby said:
200 for the Mobo not the whole thing.

for the whole thing i got most things priced out and will prolly spend about 1000 pluss a crap load on some additional gear.
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Lol I f-d up a thought you were getting mobo and Video card at same time, lol 200 is more then enough, I doubt you will need to SLI or crossfire though. Last couple rigs Ive always thought that Ill get around to SLI'ing my cards and never needed it.

The board that Reflex posted is nice :) Id prolly be getting that if I were going to build a AM3 Setup on a budget. Good choice Reflex!!

What else are you gettign at the same time? CPU, GPU, RAM?
 
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