Originally posted by: HansGroenewold... My CPU is an 939 Socket AMD 64 3500+ and I have 2 512 MB sticks of 400 DDR memory. It also has a eVGA 6800 Ultra 256 MB AGP video card. I was disappointed to see that there are not many motherboards that support this anymore. It seems almost everything is PCI Express.
Can anyone recommend a good gaming motherboard that I can buy to use with the above named components.
My planning for an A64 was aimed at next June, perhaps as early as May, when I saw that there were almost no MB's still available in the retail channels for the s939 plus AGP project I had in mind. Only Epox and Gigabyte were fairly widely available, and I wanted the MSI K8N Neo 2. (I hadn't known then how much some of the OCF members hated that MB.) But I finally found one, less expensively than the Epox (which is typically less than the Gigabyte).
I went ahead and got that one last December, while it was available at a bargain price. I had no cpu yet, and no overwhelming desire to grab one right away, but the announced end of production for the A64 3000 sent the price jumping up first to almost where the 3200 was early last month, or late n January, and dropped lower than it started from for a few days as well (no idea where it is now). Somewhere along the way, there was a new one, in the retail box, on eBay, and the bidding was weak on it. I ended up getting it cheaper than the XP's were going for over there, a helluva lot cheaper.
I'm not ready to break down one of the current XP PC's just yet, but I probably will do so sooner than planned, since I have everything now other than another 512 MB stick of DDR 400. I have breadboarded it on the table as a dry run, and everything works together.
The rationale behind the precipitate rush from the NF3 and AGP into PCI-e and NF4 leaves me unimpressed so far.
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