Does anybody know where Nvidia is? Did they decide to take a vacation? I was always an avid fan of Nvidia, but far from a fan boy. I have owned 2 Nvidia cards and 2 ATI cards and I was equally pleased with all 4 video cards, but I am very disappointed in Nvidia. I don't understand this. ATI has released an entirely new series of video cards (The HD5000 series) and Nvidia's only answer is the GTX 470 and GTX 480, both of which are quite overpriced and offer impressive specifications, but the cards fail to take the crown from ATI. Now, in Nvidia's defense, ATI has definitely thrown there well known "My price's are cheaper than yours" philosophy to the wind for the 5000 series and have definitely cranked up the prices on the 5000 series (especially the 5800 series), but at least ATI is offering several variations of the 5000 series. 5600, 5700, 5800 etc, all with several model's within each variation. ATI may be over priced as well, but they are still offering card's at every price point while Nvidia's cheapest Fermi card rests at over $300+. The GTX 480 is only on average about 10-15% faster than the HD5870 and that number can be closed or even eliminated completely with some minor overclocking. This is what took nearly 6+ months to release to the public? 2 video cards? Where are the other model's at? It's a sad time to be a Nvidia fan boy. My 5th video card will most likely be an ATI card. Nvidia need's to take budget minded gamers into mind or there not going to be around much longer. They can't continue to rely on re-branded chips and overpriced card's. Nvidia and ATI's war is much like an elephant attacking an ant farm. Nvidia being the elephant and ATI being the ant farm. Yes Nvidia may have faster cards and they may be bigger than ATI reputation wise, but ATI's sheer amount of cards, variations of those cards and there cheap prices eventually will overwhelm Nvidia. I can't remember the last time I saw a "best bang for my buck" video card from Nvidia. The 8800GT was and certainly is a legend, both for it's price at the time it was released and it's performance but that was about 4 years ago and it's time for Nvidia to work there magic. We need another 8800GT, figuratively speaking. A nice Dx11 card from Nvidia thats somewhere in between a HD5830 and the HD5850 for $199 would be a dream come true for most Nvidia fan boys.
What motherboard's are compatible with with the Phenom II x6 (six core) cpu's? On newegg i've found motherboard support for phenom II x4 and lower but nothing for the x6's.
I'm looking at the Core i3 530. It seems pretty solid and it's at a fair price. But one thing I'm confused on is the GPU that's supposedly integrated into the processor itself. If I buy a motherboard with no integrated graphics and I don't buy a 3rd party video card, will the Core i3 provide graphics?
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