What NVidia chipset is equivalent to the AMD's 890GX Northbridge?

[DietDrThunder]

I bought two MSI 890GXM-G65 AM3 Motherboards when Frys had the 1055T combo sale. So on the receipt the price shows $86.50. I really like this MB, especially streaming video through the ATI Radeon HD 4290 Onboard Video Chipset. My wife now wants a dedicated HTPC for the 50" 1080p, but knowing I only paid $86.50 for the MB, I can't get myself to pay $125 for just the MB alone.

So I want to find out what NVidia MBs are equivalent to the AMD's 890GX Northbridge and 4290 onboard video.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I really don't think nv has anything comparable.

 

[superccs]

Did you not say you got 2 of them? Give her one or find a open box on Newegg.

 

[schenley101]

you could get a 785g or 790gx motherboard. the i don't think that the 8XX chipset's new features (sata3 etc) really would make much of a difference for htpc use. plus they are 785g's on new egg for like $65. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138182

 

[sandorski]

$125 for a mobo is Cheap. Perhaps not the cheapest, but there was a time not long ago that $125 only bought you a Barebones and Discontinued Mobo.

 

[DietDrThunder]

Did you not say you got 2 of them? Give her one or find a open box on Newegg.

Yea, I got 2, but I built 2 PCs with the boards. I've never bought an open box item from newegg, are they typically something someone returned and would I be taking a chance that it doesn't work?

you could get a 785g or 790gx motherboard. the i don't think that the 8XX chipset's new features (sata3 etc) really would make much of a difference for htpc use. plus they are 785g's on new egg for like $65. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138182

Are the onboard video chipsets as good on the 790gx boards as the 890gx?

$125 for a mobo is Cheap. Perhaps not the cheapest, but there was a time not long ago that $125 only bought you a Barebones and Discontinued Mobo.

Yea, I know what you mean. The last PC I built before these was an Epox 8K7A almost 10 years ago, and I spent a lot of money building that system with 512K Ram, 30Gb HD, 3DFX Voodoo3 PCI video card, and an AMD 1.2GHz Thunderbird processor. What is funny is I still use that PC. I updated the bios and installed an AMD XP2400 processor, 2 gigs of ram, ATI All-in-wonder video card, Linksys network card, Windows XP Pro, and 256Gb HD. It is great for surfing the web, but not too much else (can't stream video well).

 

[denkile]

Checkout and compare the AM3 880G MOBO' on newegg.
Use power search and specify: AM3, 880G and SATA 6GB/s
For single video card these compare with 890series.
A good $50. video card is better than any onboard.
This seems the best for the price. I prefer Asus or MSI.
Beware the ASUS 870 boards; not sufficient support posts.
den
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[Absolution75]

as it hasn't been mentioned - nvidia pulled out of the chipset business

 

[fffblackmage]

you could get a 785g or 790gx motherboard. the i don't think that the 8XX chipset's new features (sata3 etc) really would make much of a difference for htpc use. plus they are 785g's on new egg for like $65. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138182

Are the onboard video chipsets as good on the 790gx boards as the 890gx?

AFAIK, the HD4250/4290 IGP found in the 8xx series is the same as the HD4200 found in the 785G. Only difference is a clock frequency bump. You can probably OC the HD4200 IGP if you really want to.

 

[nenforcer]

There is no nVidia chipset which is equivalent to the 890GX since it supports SATA 3 6Gbps natively.

There closest 2 boards are the

MSI NF980-G65
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130236

and the

ASUS M4N98TDEVO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131636

and thats it.

 

[StrangerGuy]

I bought two MSI 890GXM-G65 AM3 Motherboards when Frys had the 1055T combo sale. So on the receipt the price shows $86.50. I really like this MB, especially streaming video through the ATI Radeon HD 4290 Onboard Video Chipset. My wife now wants a dedicated HTPC for the 50" 1080p, but knowing I only paid $86.50 for the MB, I can't get myself to pay $125 for just the MB alone.

So I want to find out what NVidia MBs are equivalent to the AMD's 890GX Northbridge and 4290 onboard video.

I don't see the point of paying $125 for a HTPC mobo, or why you need an Nvidia board for a HTPC when AMD is more than adequate. Or am I missing something here?

 

[crucibelle]

I don't see the point of paying $125 for a HTPC mobo, or why you need an Nvidia board for a HTPC when AMD is more than adequate. Or am I missing something here?

Agreed.

OP - have you looked around newegg? There are quite a few GOOD & inexpensive AMD chipset boards that will be more than adequate, as StrangerGuy has indicated. No need to pay $125.

 

[dangerman1337]

Also Nvidia had adbandoned Chipsets back in 2008/early 2009 anyways so the 890GX (even though its going to be replaced next year and won't be able to run Bulldozer or Lllano).

 

[hans007]

the 785g 880g and 890gx are all basically teh same chip. the main difference is the clock speeds.

i think the 880g and 785g are exactly the same and most 880g boards even come with the sb710... the 880g has like a 25mhz IGP clock boost stock.

890GX is not exactly the same as the 790GX as the 790GX is really a higher clocked 780g (they only have dx10 instead of 10.1 and are missing i think picture in picture hd decoding).


but yeah basically any amd IGP in the families will perform mostly the same, as they all have the same basic 55nm 40 shader dx10.1 core on them (i think its basically a radeon 3450 but with dx10.1 sp units)

so basically you are just choosing your south bridge to be a sb850 if you get a 890gx, if you really dont need like sata 3, or slightly lower power consumption (the sb7xx southbridges are much older process tech than sb8xx ) then just get a 785g or a 880g.

 

[jacktesterson]

I have the Asus evo board mentioned above running the nvidia 980a chipset. I went with it due to full SLI x16 support for adding another 470 down the road.

It doesn't have onbosrd video though that I remember.

 

[xd_1771]

I have SLI working on my AMD chipset (790X) through a hack/patch. Might work for you too depending.