Motherboard Question

[jpk]

I have an ASrock 939 Dual SATA mother board. I bought it refurb cheap-cheap from Chiefvalue several months ago. I bought it because it allowed me to still use my AGP video card while upgrading to the 939 socket AMD CPU's. I have since gone to PCIe with my video card so my question is this, should I stay with this board or replace it with a perhaps better mobo? The board is stable and I've really not had any problems with it at all and it does still give me an upgrade path to AM2 if I choose to do that at a later date. Any concensus here? Thanks.

 

[acegazda]

Actually it doesn't give you an upgrade path to am2, that's why it's a s939 board... am2 will give you an upgrade path to am3 though. I would stay with this untill you decide to upgrade to some other platform, if it's working fine, then why replace it, unless you're experiencing very low fps, I think the pci-e slot runs @ x4 or something.

 

[Skott]

Thats a good setup you got for gaming so better to wait and see what AMD says you'll need for 4x4. Then once both Intel and AMD have their quad cores out then you can decide who's is best and make the jump up to the next level. Thats what I'd do if I had a 4800 right now anyway. But thats just me. The reason I jumped to a Conroe recently was to replace an older P4 2.2GHz rig. Vast improvement difference.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: acegazda
Actually it doesn't give you an upgrade path to am2, that's why it's a s939 board.

it does if he gets the AM2 daughterboard ...

 

[acegazda]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst

Originally posted by: acegazda
Actually it doesn't give you an upgrade path to am2, that's why it's a s939 board.

it does if he gets the AM2 daughterboard ...

I'm unaware of a board that can house a s939 and an am2 cpu.

 

[jpk]

Yes....this mobo has a slot for a daughter card that allows you to upgrade to an AM2 CPU. Actually it's a pretty versatile mobo and it seems a lot of people got one because it allows both 939/AM2 and AGP/PCIe. You have to disable the 939 socket via jumpers. Skott.....I think you're right. At the moment games play pretty well on this rig. This board is limited from an oc'ing standpoint but since I don't, it is not an issue. Just thought I'd check to see if anyone may have an option I hadn't been exposed to yet. Thanks all.