S939 MicroATX w/4dimms that can overclock an Opty 165?

[Noya]

I just sold my Compaq Asus mobo and Pentium 4. I have 1.5gb (2x256, 2x512) of pc3200 memory that I'll be re-using, along with the rest of the PC (case, HDDs, drives, PSU, etc).

I love the features of this Asus, but the "reviews" make me apprehensive:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570

This Biostar seems like it overclocks alright from reading all the reviews:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813138264

I don't want an extreme OC, 2.4ghz would satisfy me.

Are there any other boards that seem...better?

 

[Noya]

Anyone? I'm about to order.

 

[novice]

Can't help you much, other than to say my Biostar TForce 6100-939 and 3700 San Diego is due to arrive on Friday. Fingers crossed....

 

[Fricardo]

I've been researching these tonight. That Biostar looks good for the money and will take you to that OC level easily I think. If you don't need the onboard video, this Asus linked below is a little cheaper and got a lot better reviews. It seems to consistently hit the higher overclocks too (300 fsb), so if you decided you wanted to take your processor up towards 2.8 or so you could pretty easily (if the chips good, of course). It just seems higher quality too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569

Good luck.

 

[ajemm]

I have 1GB of DDR and a couple of 939 processors lying around. I been thinking about an HTPC build using this board. From the reviews I've read it has all the OCing options. The SATA 150 :frown: sucks though

 

[grooge]

Originally posted by: ajemm
The SATA 150 :frown: sucks though

Yeah.. especially the not really useful NCQ for desktop uses.. as well as hot swapping and what about a 3gb/s interface when HDD still have to saturate the ATA100 bandwidth...:roll:

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Fricardo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131569

Sounds as if the OP wanted a mATX board.

The Asus mATX boards don't overclock well. IIRC they could barely hit 240MHz HTT. The Biostar Tforce6100-939 is a good overclocker and can go 300MHz HTT no problem with my Opteron 144 (tried this on several boards with good success).

The DFI board overclocks well, but the chipset IMO is not as strong as the Geforce 61XX series, seeing as some people have had performance issues with USB and HDD on the ATI Southbridge.

Other good overclocking mATX socket 939 boards... Jetway has one based on the ATI chipset, but besides the lousy Southbridge, it has a known problem where the onboard NIC stops working when overclocked. EPoX makes one based on the Geforce 6100 chipset which is supposed to be a great overclocker. I don't have experience with this.

Originally posted by: novice
Can't help you much, other than to say my Biostar TForce 6100-939 and 3700 San Diego is due to arrive on Friday. Fingers crossed....

Let me know if your Northbridge heatsink is the one in the pictures at Newegg, or is the same as the Southbridge heatsink. I just got in another Tforce6100-939 from Newegg and the two chipset heatsinks are the same - same as the one normally on the Southbridge. I was pretty disappointed, but the board runs fine at 300MHz HTT and doesn't seem to get too hot so maybe the bigger heatsink wasn't needed.

Too bad the OP has DDR RAM to recycle because Abit has a totally awesome mATX socket AM2 board, the NF-M2 Nview.

 

[aka1nas]

IIRC, most of the 939 6100 and 6150 boards that allow any OC'ing only go up to around 250HTT. That will get you right around your 2.4Ghz goal. If that T-Force allows you to go higher than that is probably the way to go.

 

[Zap]

There are a number of mATX 939 boards that will allow 300MHz HTT...

Biostar Tforce6100-939
EPoX 6100 chipset
DFI ATI chipset
Jetway ATI chipset