What is a decent socket 939 motherboard?

[gubar]

Hi,

someone is kindly giving me a processor and 2 gigs of ram. I will post the exact details once I find out, but he has told me that I'll need to get a motherboard, that is socket 939.

What would be a good one - a fair compromise between price and quality?]

thanks,

gubar

 

[raybay]

Look at the reviews on www.tomshardware.com. There are several good ones.

 

[Stick'o ram]

Better hurry though, 939 boards are going extinct while the prices rise.

 

[gubar]

Thanks for the posts.

Would this one be any good-

Asrock 939 N68 PV/GLAN, Nforce 7050, N463 Nforce 630A?

It can be bought for £50.

thanks,

gubar

 

[gubar]

Ok,

after a bit of research I've found that these ones can all be had for around £50 in the UK.

Asrock 939 N68 PV/GLAN, Nforce 7050, N463 Nforce 630A

Asrock 939 NF6G -VSTA

Asrock 939 S56-M Micro ATX SIS 756

Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 ATX Geforce 6100

I'll be running XP and not vista, if that makes a difference. I'll be adding 2 gigs to it and a nvidia 7900.

Any thoughts on these?

thanks,

gubar

 

[raybay]

The ASrock is one of the more basic boards. Reasonably reliable, but considered a basic, budget motherboard. It is NOT for gaming or image editing tasks.
The Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 ATX GeForce 6100 is an excellent board from an excellent company. 2 GB is barely enough.

 

[M0R0NI]

Here is a link to some good boards evan an SLI if you want to go that way
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200022+1070907495&name=939

 

[gubar]

Thanks for the posts guys.

Raybay, thanks for the recomendation of the gigabyte board. When you say 2 gigs isn't beraly enough - do you mean specifically for this board, or not enough memory in general?

Moroni - quite a few boards there. Do you recking they are all good boards?

thanks,

gubar

 

[M0R0NI]

My recomendation for the best ones are for non SLI is the ASUS A8V-XE an if you want the ability to SLI even if it is in the future I recommend the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. These are great boards!

 

[mailpup]

Keep in mind that Newegg does not ship outside the USA so that link would be for information purposes only.

 

[gubar]

Thanks again moroni,

I've checked and they don't send to the UK unfortunately. HAving trouble finding stock, but I can see this one quite cheap:

Asus Asus A8v-VM SE mATX Socket 939 Motherboard

What do you think of this one?
thanks,

gubar

 

[gubar]

Hi,

there are very few of these boards avaible online... there is the first one I mentioned (which doesn't seem great) and these two are on ebay:


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gigabyte-Skt-...ZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Gigabyte-Skt-...ZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem

Are either of those two better options?

Also, if I got the first, inferior one... what kind of issues would I face? At the moment I run and amd 3200+ with only one gig, so it would definately be better? I use it mainly for maya, photoshop and zbrush, and a bit of gaming. Would I encounter problems with the asrock board doing these?

thanks again for the help,

gubar

 

[raybay]

The first listed is fine, if you live in the United Kingdom.

The otherone is a bad link. I cannot bring it up.