Nvidia or ATI with Phenom II?

Which would you recommend?
I'm kinda neutral with these 2. I liked Nvidia at first but ATI blew me off my feet as well.

And with me getting Phenom II, would it be better to go the AMD/ATI combo? Or would Nvidia do the same?

All I'm concern is the performance and stability.

Hope to get some feedback cause I'm gonna start building my computer tomorrow!

Thanks!

Depends on your motherboard. AMD and ATI are a part of the same company, so they probably go together better. But you can pair an AMD cpu with either ATI or Nvidia GPUs.

that's what i always say, but really i don't think it makes much of a difference. either manufacturer's cards will work fine, just choose the one that has the better value/performance for you.

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I like ATI with AMD chipset and if you are are going AM2+ or AM3 type of motherboarsd, they have AM3 motherboard on the market place now, and ATI 4870 are pretty reasonable price now.

4870s 512mb will be down to $150 soon.

4850s will be $120ish.

1 4850 = 1
2x 4850 Xfire = 1.8
1 4870 512mb = 1.25
1 4870 1GB = 1.3

So 2x4850 will be better if the game supports Xfire.

^ Well, most games nowadays support Crossfire and SLi.

Even if you're playing an older game that doesn't support 2 or more cards in Xfire/SLi, it doesn't really matter since a single 4850 is still a powerful card that is more than enough to max out most games.
(the 2nd card in non-SLi/Xfire games is sometimes used as a physics engine)

Argh, the motherboard I wanted to get has HYBRID Crossfire X.
It can't do crossfire right?

And would it be just as good with the 4850?

Actually i dont even think the hybrid Xfire works with cards above the 34 and 24 series, not 100% but thats what i have read.

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