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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 4677865" data-attributes="member: 360">Current AMD CPUs with nVidia or AMD/ATi chipsets? Nope. Back when AMD pretty much meant being stuck with VIA chipsets or worse, it was another story. Half the reason AMD pushed so hard to integrate the memory controller on the Athlon 64 was because third-party chipset makers just weren't in Intel's league at making discrete memory controllers.Quick, rough ranking of desktop CPUs for the last few years (under certain applications, and at extremes of the clock speeds these CPUs were available at, there's obviously some overlap; for example, it wasn't until the second revision of Pentium 4s before they matched the Athlon XP, and the third before they definitively passed it with the Northwood 'C' chips)Core i7/i5Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad = Phenom IIPhenomAthlon 64 X2 Pentium DAthlon 64Pentium 4Athlon XPPentium III = AthlonK6-3Pentium II = K6-2K6</blockquote>