Nvidia 6100 vs Nvidia 590 chip set

[averagejoe]

First off yes I know intel is a better buy right now. The thing is unless you are going to give me a Intel CPU that is better than a AMD 64 x2 4200 I realy don't care if Intel is a better buy right now . As I all ready have a CPU that only needs a motherboard to complete a computer. Just tired of geting told intel is better on other sites when asking AMD questions.

I have a AMD 64 x2 6000 on a 6100 chipset board and a AMD 64 x2 4200 that is needing a home. If thier is a large difference between the proformance of the 6100 and the 590 chipset I may buy a used 590 board I know of and put the AMD 64 x2 6000 in it. Will be using 2 gig of memory and an single 8800GTS 512. Other wise will be just buying anouther 6100 chipset based board new if thier is not a large differnce. Dose any one know of a site that has a direct comparison between these chipsets? Has any one moved from a 6100 chipset board to a 590 chipset board and can supply me with bech marks showing the differnce?

I need to have an Nvidia chipset for compatibilty with PCLinuxOS. Can not go over $80.00 for this motherboard.

 

[Myrandex]

It can depend, but for the most part I would say no real performance differences will be noted. I believe some of the upper end 5xx chipsets overclock better, and they support some newer technologies such as EPP memory, DualNET, etc. which can potentially yield some slight performance increases in the right situations with the right benchmark, but I would say in general performance, you won't notice any difference. Most AMD motherboards do not have much of a performance difference primarily because of the on die memory controller (that was the area for the largest difference in performance in the past). Unless you want to go SLI, you could probably grab a 570 Ultra chipset and be just fine as well.
Jason

P.S. pffft on those intelians, AMD isn't utterly worthless yet, especially if you already have the CPU...