Nvidia chipset, ati card?

just a quick question, I'm planning my first build, however, I dont know how "compatible" ati cards are with nvidia chipsets. Ive heard a lot of ppl with intel chipsets and nvidia cards, and they work just fine, but i havent heard of anyone with a nvidia chipset/ati card combo. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

It's fine. I have an NVidia nForce 4 SLI chipset and ATI 2900XT in my rig and it runs fine (great, actually). The only thing you lose is the ability to crossfire (on ATI) or SLI (on NVidia) later. I haven't seen any evidence of one rigging their system against the other.

Unless you are planning to Crossfire your ATI display card on mainboard with Nvidia chipset, otherwise it is fine to use ATI display card on Nvidia chipset mainboard.

thx 4 the feedback. wat about a card like 3870x2? Would it run?

Yep, a 3870x2 would work fine since the Crossfire is basically built into the card itself.

However, why are you looking at nVidia motherboards??? I would only ever recommend one if someone really wanted to SLI two nVidia graphics cards... If they were just going to run one card, be it nVidia or ATI, I'd say go with Intel for better stability, support, performance, etc (in most cases anyway). Maybe if you already had the nVidia chipset I could understand putting in an ATI card, but if you're building from scratch get an Intel board with your ATI card. Get an X38 if you want to leave the door open for adding a second ATI card for Crossfire some day, or get a solid P35 board (GA-EP35-DS3L for like ~$100) if you just plan on using one graphics card.