Looking for a socket 939 board with AGP...

[Cheetah8799]

Anyone know of a newer revision Socket 939 motherboard which also has an AGP slot? Everything I've seen so far is PCI Express only, unless I drop down to Socket 754.

 

[imported_OrSin]

any Nforce 3 MB is preyy good. It not exactly new, but it has most the features you might want. Also ASUS-ROCk ( think thats name ) has fairly new motherboard with both AGP and PCI-E. This might be what you want so you can upgrade the video card later for cheap.

 

[Cheetah8799]

hmm, I'll have to check out that ASUSROCK board you mentioned.

I suppose I forgot to mention, I'd like to go with a nForce 4 board, but those all appear to be PCI Express only as well.


edit: ASRock is the name.

 

[Madwand1]

Most of the good old nForce 3 Ultra 939 boards are no longer available (like the MSI Neo2's). Gigabyte has a nForce 3 250 available now -- GA-K8NSC-939. If I wanted a 939 AGP board, I'd grab an ASRock or this one while it's still available.

http://us.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_Spec_GA-K8NSC-939.htm
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...4+1070907495&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=22

The Gigabyte has gigabit ethernet, but their implementation is not ideal -- it goes through the PCI bus. But if you've got not much else going through the PCI bus, it's not a problem and can still give more than enough performance.

Another issue I recall with some Gigabytes is that they locked the command rate at 2T, and to unlock it, you'd have to press Ctrl-F1 on the BIOS screen to see the option to change it.

 

[Cheetah8799]

For anyone reading this, I think I found the ASRock board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
For anyone reading this, I think I found the ASRock board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157081

Yes, that's the one he was talking about. If you're interested, I started a thread (last year ) on the board here. It's extremely long and you probably won't be able to or want to read through all of it at this point. But most people are quite happy with theirs, it offers a lot for the price - including, of course, the ability to keep your current AGP video card and upgrade to a PCI-E one at some point in the future.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Thanks for the link there SynthDude2001. I'll go through it later.

 

[macaddict]

No doubt it seems you cant go wrong with the ASRock. Mine is on order as well...had enough of all the Nvidia crap drivers and SATA woes.

 

[imported_OrSin]

One more thing by defination Nforce 4 is PCI-E. When Nforce 3 and 4 are very close to the same board. The big difference is one is AGP and the other PCI-E. You can't get a Nforce 4 with AGP.

 

[wwswimming]

the MSI (Neo2, 939, AGP) got some major good reviews.

wow, that sucks - Newegg has nothing (nothing MSI) along these lines.