Eventually I'm going to upgrade the mb, cpu, and ram to i7/DDR3, but first I'm going after the graphics card. I'm looking to spend about $200 or less, and think I'm going with the 4890 over a GTX260. (roughly same price, but the 4890 looks like it tests better in the kind of games I like, like Fallout, Dragon Age, Borderlands)
I've been with NVidia forever, so I'm really not sure about ATI cards. Specifically, is my current motherboard compatible with an ATI card? I don't plan on crossfire, at least until I upgrade to i7, but will one ATI card run properly on my MB? (for reference: http://tinyurl.com/2v52yf)
Any help on the compatibility would be greatly appreciated, and also if you have any input on what card to go with, they'd be great too.
Thanks.
Message edited by shanegasm on 11-13-2009 at 10:33:14 PM
There should be no problem. You can run a single card from either manufacturer in any PCIe x16 slot, whether the chipset is ATI, nvidia or Intel. It's only when you get into crossfire/SLI that you'll run into problems.
There should be no problem. You can run a single card from either manufacturer in any PCIe x16 slot, whether the chipset is ATI, nvidia or Intel. It's only when you get into crossfire/SLI that you'll run into problems.
Message edited by capt_taco on 11-13-2009 at 10:54:46 PM
ive had you mb, just a little heads up, ati cards will work, but you will have probs with booting update the bios if you havent already before you put an ati card in, the mb would frezze at post, after i updated it booted fine, (i had to flash the old way) hope this helps