Best MoBo for AMD 939 socket?

GearDuck · December 17th, 2005, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jbruneau

I moved from Intel to AMD when I got my AMD AthlonXP Barton 2500+. Excellent processor, and my Athlon64 3200+ is better

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I went with the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board to maintain my AGP video card (the MSI 6600GT). I have been looking for a 6800GT, cheap, so that I can stay away from PCIExpress for a little bit longer.

It's totally up to as per what you currently already have, what you want to replace, and how much you want to spend

. Another board that you may want to check out is the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Motherboard as it natively (no hybrid junk) supports both AGP and PCIExpress (for example: if you have an AGP card, don't want to get a new one, and want expandability later

). I have heard excellent reviews about this motherboard!

Thanks, I think I will check this board out, I have a BFG 6800 Ultra AGP and would like to keep it for a while.

jbruneau · December 17th, 2005, 05:06 PM

Great choice, I'm assuming you're talking about the ASRock board

! I don't know if its a good thing, probably is, but nVidia actually bought out ULi (and the board is running a ULi chipset to have support for both AGP and PCIExpress).

So, we will probably see more of these boards, and more drivers as well. I don't think that nVidia would kill this board to 'push' PCIExpress, as it's not worth it to them, and they are still selling alot of AGP cards! Expecially because of the 'rumored' nVidia GeForce 7800GS AGP card that we have heard about

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GearDuck · December 18th, 2005, 04:05 AM

I ordered the ASRock mobo today with a AMD Opteron 148 Venus. Merry Christmas to me from me : )

Shin_Mike · December 18th, 2005, 07:46 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131568

A8N SLI Delux is awesome I would go that mobo if I want a sli setup, but still DFI is a great choice

Sincerely Shin Mike.

-anibalX- · December 18th, 2005, 10:12 PM

What you think about the new abit an8 32x? i couldn't find a review yet

jbruneau · December 27th, 2005, 06:46 PM

If it's anything like the ASUS A8N32-SLI board it is going to be amazing! Incredible that they actually made something to keep up with 2 512MB 7800GTX cards in SLI

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