Need a cheap socket 939 m/b.

[CMH]

As mentioned in topic, I need a dependable, yet cheap, socket 939 mobo. Preferably by a big name company (Asus, gigabyte, MSI, etc).

I think I shouldn't take it for granted, so I'll mention that it should have 10/100 LAN and built in sound too.

Not gonna OC or anything, so the most basic mobo would do.

 

[DonNagual]

How about THIS one?

There are cheaper out there (even within the ASUS lineup) but if you go any cheaper, you have to give up having a PCI-e slot, and you get a lower quality chipset.
This means that you have excellent upgrade options for the future. For example next year you could by the 7800 line up of graphics cards. If you don't get a board with PCI-e, you are killing yourself for upgrade options in the future.

The one I have linked you to has PCI-e for your graphics card, and also the nforce4 chipset which is state of the art at this time. This means that next year when you decide to upgrade, your motherboard will support the dual core processors.

 

[Spike]

What about one of these from Jetway?

939AGP - £48
939Turbo £56
939-GT4-SLI-G £87

OK, I know it's JetWay, but hey, it's cheap, it comes in a variety of flavours, and I've used the 939AGP version which seems pretty reliable.

Or for a search on 939 on this companis site, click here

 

[vnf4ultra]

I have this board,
Chaintech vnf4ultra
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813152049
It's great to me, and cheap, only $85 usd shipped.

Also, this new board supports full agp and pci-e, and also can support the next amd cpu socket type via add in slot.
Asrock 939 dual sata2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081
Also cheap, only $70 usd.

 

[Spike]

damn that Asrock board is good value! Ok, it's asock, but what do you want for that price, blood? lol

 

[CMH]

I think I'll stick with something thats more branded. Building this for a friend, and chances are upgradability is not a huge concern, since its mainly going to be used for officeworks. But I decided a 939 is the way to go, since he's probably going to do more processor intense stuff in a couple of years, being an engineering student...

I'd have gone for Chaintech, but I don't think I can get it here in Aus. I'll see if I can find it.

I was thinking of going for AGP, but I think PCI-E would be a good choice since it won't be too much more expensive.

Thanks guys for all the suggestions, but I'll still accept more suggestions, at least another day.

 

[vnf4ultra]

Here are a few more decent boards, by being "name brand" they cost a little more than some other boards.
1. Gigabyte k8vt890-9
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128288
2. Msi k8n neo4-f
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130491
3. Gigabyte ga-k8n pro-sli
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128301
4. Abit an8-ultra
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127212

Board 1 is just a basic board, based on a via chipset, nothing special Imo, but a decent looking board.

Board 2 is also a basic board based on nforce 4 (regular), also cheap.

Board 3 is a nforce 4 sli board(can use two nvidia graphics cards at once), and it's very cheap for a sli board.

Board 4 is a nforce 4 ultra board with pretty good features, but costs a little more.

 

[CMH]

Whoa, thats alot of boards to consider.

Also, I'm not very sure what is nforce4. can someone explain?

Thanks.

 

[vnf4ultra]

Nforce 4 is nvidia's newest chipset, it comes in nforce 4, nforce 4 ultra, and nforce 4 sli. The ultra and sli are almost identical, except the sli version can use 2 nvidia graphics cards at once, where the ultra can use only one.
Nforce 4 is one of the fastest chipsets you can get at the moment, the new uli m1695 is also very fast.

Here's more info.
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce4_family.html

And I realized now there are 4 nforce 4's, the one I left out is sli x16, it's explained in the link.