I am using a EVGA Geforce GTX 970 FTW, on a AMD FX2+ MB (PCI express 3.0 slot). A8-6600K (4 core CPU). And I would think I would get a kick ass system. I can never win trying to get a fast comp to perform on these CGI programs (Blender, Carrara, now Poser). Like this board can not handle this Nvidia cards. I like Nvidia due to the CUDA cores. Ati/AMD has these Steam processors and looking into a RX480. But, now I have to get a Intel board, intel CPUs are very expensive. Although in the next year the Zen is coming out.