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Doubt they will be better AMD motherboards from the nforce range usually kick [bleep], even the later ATIs were really good for 939, but the cpu is the biggest factor nice extras on nforce boards are good and the lack of a southbridge makes them cheaper and better performing but you have to live with it for intel.

I usually go with whats best and that looks more ATI the initial specs are looking better than Nvidias, then of course ATI have the advantage they were a big part of DX10 development and it will be there second generation as xbox360 is an earlier version of the r600dx10 core whereas Nvidia its a first generation and that has its disadvantages. ATI have also been devloping the technolgoy longer and have been slowly integrating dx10 features in the cards, the last x1900 which will come out about the same time as the nvidias will be very close to a dx10 card as they tested some of the pipeline and memory technology on x1900s first.