ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 & X2 3800+

[ncage]

For the people that have this setup..how good of overclock are you getting? What kind of memory do you have? Im trying to decide whether to get this board, a EPoX EP-9NP+, or a DFI LANPARTY UT nF4 Ultra-D. I really like the ability to use AGP. Of course i would sell my 6600gt agp on ebay and just get a 6600gt pci-x card but thats just a hastle. I guess the only thing i don't like about this board is it doesn't have 1000 lan. Ya i could always get a 1000 lan card but then it would be pushing the traffic over the pci bus but then again this board is so cheap its almost to tempting. I guess the whole deciding factor is the overclock with the 3800 x2.

thanks,
ncage

 

[SynthDude2001]

There are at least three guys who have posted in my thread on the ASRock board in the Motherboards forum who have the board already, one of which I know is using a 3800+ X2 (Rage187, I think). I'm not sure what his overclocking results are, but you may want to PM him (if that is indeed the correct person I'm thinking of ).

Since you still have a quite capable AGP video card, I'd very much recommend the ASRock board instead of going through the hassle of trying to trade up to a PCI-E version of your 6600GT for no performance gain. The only thing that may be holding your overclock is that the voltage options could stand to be improved (and there's a new beta BIOS on the way, but I'm not sure what changes it'll have). However I believe up to 1.55V is still available (though I'm unclear as to whether this is for all processors or just the FX line), which should be enough to get a pretty good overclock on any 90nm CPU, as far as I'm aware.

 

[Furen]

1.55v is only for FX and 130nm CPUs. You'll be limited to 1.45v (according to anandtech's finding, anyway) with dual-core. Considering that X2s turn into mini-furnaces when you jack up the clock speed and the voltage too much, it might not be an issue to begin with.

 

[ncage]

so what does everyone else think?

 

[Markfw]

MSI Neo2 platinum with a 3800+. And if you don't go over 1.5v they aren;t even as hot as presshotts. I would say that 2600 @1.5v, and 52c max temp with both cores 100% in a sonata and one case fan speaks well of this cpu. Granted I have an XP90, but thats $30 with the fan included.

 

[ncage]

doohhh no one seems to have this combo yet. I found one guy who has the mb but is waiting on his processor.

 

[sandorski]

I really want this mobo and am trying to convince myself to get a x2 3800, but it won't happen for a few weeks anyways.

If you settle on that combo, be sure to update your results.