anyone have a good choice 939 board ?

[phpdog]

Hi ,

I need a 939 board to go with a AMD Athlon 64 3200 Winchester 90nm .

I was wanting a Lan party board but DFI informed me that the 939 Lan Party wont be availible in the UK until the end of this year or begining of next year .

Ive been looking at 2 boards i quite like :-

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum Motherboard socket 939 ---> Here

or

Abit AV8-3rd Eye Guru ---> Here

or

Asus A8V Deluxe WiFi Bundle Edition ---> Here


This is my first AMD 64 setup , and ive never had an MSI , ASUS board before , anyone have any of these boards .

I was reading somewhere in a mag about i think it was the ASUS board it was saying its the first board to have a true AGP/PCI lock in the BIOS that works.

But i like the 3rd EYE feature of the ABIT board with the external viewer for temps , clock speed mem , etc .


Any advice on these boards or other good overclocking boards for a 939 CPU ?

EDIT - I also see this board which i like :-
EPoX EP-9NDA3+ Mainboard for S939 nForce3 250Ultra,SATA,GbLAN,ATX,Dual-DDR --->
Here

 

[bap4201]

asus a8v, not sure if it works with the processor though.

 

[Squally Leonharty]

Get revision 2 of Asus A8V Deluxe for a truly working AGP/PCI lock. You won't get the WiFi bundle, though, unless the vendor specifies otherwise.

Your 90nm CPU will run on that board after a BIOS flash upgrade to 1007. So you'll need luck if you only have one 939 CPU, i.e. the 90nm one you have. The board will either underclock the CPU, allowing you to enter BIOS and stuff, or it will simply not boot and report "System failed CPU test". One way to fix that is to borrow a 130nm 939 CPU from a friend of yours (if he/she has it) and flash the BIOS with that, then use the 90nm CPU and everything will be perfectly fine.

By the way, this problem applies for ALL 939 motherboards, except the nForce4 ones, because those motherboards were made before the 90nm CPU's arrived.

Edit: Someone is being very kind. Check out this thread!

 

[Rhagz]

Hmm I am torn between the Asus and the MSI boards myself.. can anyone convince me one way or the other why I should get either. Seems they are basically the same except one is a VIA chipset and one is Nforce.

 

[imported_Harbinger]

asus is faster, proven by benchmarks. in fact kt800 is faster than nforce3. thats all but nforce has a nice shiny working agp/pci lock where in via its a bit complicated depending on board and revision.

 

[Rhagz]

Asus A8V Rev. 2 vs MSI Neo2 Platinum.. both same price, just different chipsets. Asus one comes with a free WiFi card, which is nice, but I would likely not use it. Arg, I hate these decisions!