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AMD w/PCI-E

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Thurgo0dy

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Are the new socket 939 motherboards w/PCI-E really worth it? I'm building my first system and was wondering if I should get one with PCI-E to future-proof my self.
 
yes. I just got my Asus A8N-SLI today. If you want a long term platform, socket 939 and nforce4 will serve you for a long time, much like a socket A platform did for several years before. PCIe x1 slots will be nice for next gen sound cards, TV capture cards, SATA-II & III controllers, etc. SATA-II is nice, and with the external extenders like the ones included in the Asus A8N-SLI board, you can have hot-swappable SATA-II external hard drives (sweet!!!!). As far as graphics, look at every product launch newer than the X800/6800 launches. The X700 series is PCIe only; the 6200 series is PCIe only; the 6600 series was PCIe only for like 3 months before it hit AGP; the new X850/X800 cards are all PCIe only; NV41 will be PCIe only. Face it, AGP cards are gonna be hard to come by in a year or 2. Plus, the best $200 card ever, the 6600GT, is almost $50 cheaper on PCIe.
 
I agree with gobucks. Plus nforce4 adds some nice features that get overlook because of PCIe and SLI.

Like Active Armor (onboard firewall) that takes the I/O packet scanning off the CPU to its own dedicated chip

Much better overclocking features:
nTune software
greater voltage control
ability to clock the GPU on a seperate bus

Dual Gb Lan

Raid morphing
Raid drive mixing (sata and eide)
 
if the Gigabyte K8NXP-9 falls into that range, it'll be a great board. I've seen reviews, and it's fast and stable as hell. It's based on the ultra chipset, so hopefully it'll be sub-$150. The only problem i have with it is 1) it's currently not available and 2) the max DIMM voltage is 2.8V, which is not horrible but not exactly great for an overclocker.
 
I thought the K8T890 was for 754 CPUs.
Personally I think I want the 754 over the 939.
Lower price piont, and I don't think 939 will be around any longer the 754 with the dual core chips comng out next year. IMO
 
On AMD64 architecture, the chipset is nothing to do with the exact flavor of CPU, since no system core functions are in there anymore. Combine any chipset with any CPU - from socket-754 to 8-node Opteron.
 
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