You RECOMMEND nVidia mobos?
*deep breath* Cue the immense laughter. I do remember the SATA disk corruption, Firewall kabooz and lack of Vista support for nF3. (aka nothxbai )

RD600 was quite good, the DFI ICFX3200 board could push 500+ FSB on C2D, which pars / > the 680i, and with better latency settings. The only thing ATI lacked was better optimization (which resulted in lower scores in benchmarks), but considering it's a port from RD480, extremely impressive. The delay was red tape (Intel vs ATI+AMD), not design problems.

RD780 AFAIK is AMD only, which means on time.

One thing the RD780/790 will do good compared to nF780 is going to be heat. Go see the big fan on the 780i reference board desperately cooling the 680i + BR04 chip. RD790s? They have cooling setups that come tamer than the P35 boards.

Oh, and this is from a chip that handles all the PCIe lanes on 1 chip, not 2.

Look at where the 7XX series is targeted at. AMD chips, not Intel.

Does nVidia have something new up its sleeve? All I see is AM2+ MCP, not enthusiast chips. Considering they've given even 780i the cold shoulder, I am well, not surprised.

ATi has been on time with AMD mobo chips, 480X, 580X, 690G I can't say but the former 2 are quite right, and very cool (in temps) indeed. ATi might have had a hard time implementing Intel's FSB right, but what I see on 939/AM2 is quite a good sign.

nV chipsets are bought more for SLi, if anything. Take that out of the equation, and who wants a 650i/680i when you have a P35/X38?

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Oct 8 2007, 10:44 PM