Pandaz3

I had two of the Sata-2 boards and am very happy with them. I switched my main machine to a VSTA version for two reasons, 1. Vista RC 2 was Luke cool toward the Sata-2 board (Ran well but hated my video card in the performance figures) now that is not enough of a reason for me to change, but I received a Abit UL8 back from RMA and it won't post.... so I thought I would just use my existing , good Dual Sata-2 board for it and possibly clear up two problems.

At first blush you would think nothing is different between these two boards, (939 Dual Sata-2 and 939 Dual-VSTA) but look a little c*****.

The six capacitors nearest the CPU are the same height, but a smaller diameter. The CPU Fan header now has four pins (Easy to use a normal 3 pin connector) The onboard sound is different and has three fatter capacitors, where it had two smaller one before.there are a few other small changes too.

Now for the worst thing I found, it(VSTA) only has one USB header where the 939 Dual Sata-2 had two.

(Sigh) but I'll live with it.

I am using Win XP Pro X64 modified with a beta SP2 and the only driver I installed was the Audio. I am just using a cheap Logitech gaming headset, But the onboard sound is pretty good, they have a demo of a helicopter flying around and it sure sounds as if it passes behind you. I did put my Audigy 2 Value back in while trouble shooting a joystick, and the card is a little better, but this is pretty good onboard sound.

Okay how do I have it set up. I am using a Seasonic S-12 430 W PSU, X2 4400 (240 x 11, 2.640)(45 C while folding), Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, X850 Pro flashed to X850 XT PE (12 pipes)(AC Silencer cooler), 2 X 1Gig GSKill PC3200 (2.5, 3,3,6) going to a Old 955 DF CRT. It is in a Antec "Sonata" Case.

It runs Flight Simulator X (A real test for any system) and "A Company of Heroes" just great.

Just in case someone was wondering.

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ASUS A8N-E, Opteron 148 (2.6), XFX 6800GS, 2 x 512 Corsair PC3200XL; ASRock 939 Dual VSTA, X2 4400 (2.6), X850 Pro AGP, 2 X 1024 GSKill PC3200, Lots of Radeons X800 pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550SE, 9500 Pro, 9200, 9000 Pro 128, 7200, 7000

ServerKing

I have ASRock 939 Dual Sata-2 this board in my HTPC. I was looking at the other one you mentioned before I purchased and wondered myself the differences. I havent had a problem with the one I have been running rock solid since I got it.

Pandaz3

I have two 939 Dual Sata-2 and one 939 Dual VSTA, they are better over-clockers than my puny ASUS A8N-E board (Good running board, just not a clocker)


The ASRock set up easily, take an amazing variety of RAM, can use a AGP or PCI-E video card and so many other features.

I don't understand... they are owned by ASUS as the "Cheap" line, have more useful features, a better (Read usable) BIOS....

I am seriously thinking of getting another ASRock 939 Dual VSTA board to replace my ASUS, but I am not sure about using my X-Fi Platinum

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ASUS A8N-E, Opteron 148 (2.6), XFX 6800GS, 2 x 512 Corsair PC3200XL; ASRock 939 Dual VSTA, X2 4400 (2.6), X850 Pro AGP, 2 X 1024 GSKill PC3200, Lots of Radeons X800 pro, AIW 9600XT, 9600 Pro, 9550SE, 9500 Pro, 9200, 9000 Pro 128, 7200, 7000