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Warm? Athlon 64 3500+ + ECS K8t890A mobo @ Fry's

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Warm? Athlon 64 3500+ + ECS K8t890A mobo @ Fry's

A64 3500+ & ECS K8T890A

939-pin CPU w/ enhanced virus protection
VIA K8T890
Supports BOTH AGP and PCI-E (didn't know that about the AGP)
6-ch audio

$209.99

#4590577

I usually shop at mwave and the 3500+ (Venice) is already $219 by itself w/o a mobo. If I am a repost, sorry, please delete me, thanks.
 
Originally posted by: vfxraven19
Warm? Athlon 64 3500+ + ECS K8t890A mobo @ Fry's

A64 3500+ & ECS K8T890A

939-pin CPU w/ enhanced virus protection
VIA K8T890
Supports BOTH AGP and PCI-E (didn't know that about the AGP)
6-ch audio

$209.99

#4590577

I usually shop at mwave and the 3500+ (Venice) is already $219 by itself w/o a mobo. If I am a repost, sorry, please delete me, thanks.
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I currently have a 3000. Would I see a difference if I upgrade to this processor? Plus what other MB have AGP with a 939 chipset. Any recommendations?
 
Originally posted by: cherrypik
Originally posted by: vfxraven19
Warm? Athlon 64 3500+ + ECS K8t890A mobo @ Fry's

A64 3500+ & ECS K8T890A

939-pin CPU w/ enhanced virus protection
VIA K8T890
Supports BOTH AGP and PCI-E (didn't know that about the AGP)
6-ch audio

$209.99

#4590577

I usually shop at mwave and the 3500+ (Venice) is already $219 by itself w/o a mobo. If I am a repost, sorry, please delete me, thanks.
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I currently have a 3000. Would I see a difference if I upgrade to this processor? Plus what other MB have AGP with a 939 chipset. Any recommendations?
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Well, is your 3000 939 socket or 754? if it is 939, then you dont need to upgrade at all unless you care about a few frames/sec on your gaming
 
Frys usually lets you upgrade your motherboard in the combo for a reasonable price. ECS is the bottom of their line (though I have never had a problem with them personally). ECS generally has less features and is less overclockable (less stable overclocked) than Asus and the like. Otherwise the combo isnt bad.

Oh and outpost is frys online.
 
Originally posted by: lavaheadache
If you read the description it actually says the processor is a 3200
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Processor: AMD Athlon? 64
Model: 3200+
P/N (Tray): ADA3500DAA4BW


At Outpost, model states 3200+ but the AMD part number is correct (ADA3500DAA4BW) for the 3500+😕

 
My friend bought one of these, it's a real 3500+ bare cpu... I helped him hook everything up and also installed his Zalman Resorator to it, nice quiet setup... I passed on buying this A64 combo (I already have 2 A64 systems) and opted for the Sempron 2500+ (Socket-A) & PCChips SIS748 mobo for $59 (for a cheap linux box).
 
anyone else having problems installing xp (pre sp1) on this machine with an agp graphics card?
i cant get it to go. stop error. even with the latest bios (that you cant get at the ecs website)
need to know whether to exchange or return...
 
well, my ECS board is gonna be on Ebay, I am not gonna attempt installing it, so it is brand new unopened. And the reason that I am not going to give the ECS a chance is because of the dual graphic ports, AGP and PCI-E. ECS is already a cr*ppy company and now they have this worrysome feature of dual graphic ports. So I am gonna sell it on ebay. I bite on the deal because OEM 3500+ sells for the same price combo at Fry's
 
Originally posted by: Ghettocowboy
well, my ECS board is gonna be on Ebay, I am not gonna attempt installing it, so it is brand new unopened. And the reason that I am not going to give the ECS a chance is because of the dual graphic ports, AGP and PCI-E. ECS is already a cr*ppy company and now they have this worrysome feature of dual graphic ports. So I am gonna sell it on ebay. I bite on the deal because OEM 3500+ sells for the same price combo at Fry's
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What makes you say that ECS is "cr*ppy"?
 
Yea whats the deal with both agp and pcie. I have an decent agp card so this is a tempting deal.. but i havent heard anything of agp and pcie on a 939 board.
 
Here are my thoughts on the mobo combo;

I'm upgrading from an ecs amd athlon 2200+ to this new ecs amd athlon 64

I had to buy new memory. I already a 1gb of memory. The memory I HAD to purchase HAD to be what was listed in th manual. The non-listed memory made the mobo non bootable.

I HAD to buy a new AGP card. The new AGP card HAD to be using the chipset that is listed in the user guide. My old agp card would not display anything.

If I hadn't messed up my other mobo while changing the cpu heatsink and fan, I would return this combo.

BUYER BEWARE!!
 
This MB worked surprizingly well--I paired it with a Winchester A64 3200 512 mb Patriot pc3200 DDR (CAS 2) and Geforce 3 AGP card for a second setup (put the A64 3500 on another board). Granted, it doesn't have all the overclocking capabilities of ASUS, Abit or DFI (bios adjustments were limited to FSB, CAS, DDR ratio, and Vcore voltage only); but I had no trouble running it at 225x10 (Vcore and DRAM at stock voltage). Cool & Quiet keeps it just that. Great value!
 
Does the K8t890A support real Suspend to Ram (S3) sleep? The manual suggests it does, but I want to be sure since I'm building an htpc using MCE2005. I have tried several motherboards that claim S3, but it seems either the S3 option is disabled in the bios, or it doesn't shut the fans off.

I just tried an Socket A Foxconn 748K7AA that says it supports S3, and even lets you pick it in the bios. However, when I go to standby (and I used Microsoft's sleeper.exe to verify it was actually going to S3), the fans keep running. I've searched everywhere, used the registry hack USBBIOSx, made sure S3 was enabled before installing the OS, etc.
 
Remember, that so called AGP slot doesn't seem to be a REAL agp like the new ULI chipset has. This runs from the PCI bus which is about AGP 1x speeds or so. So, if you have a mid to higher end agp card it will be bandwidth limited in some situations it seems.


Jason
 
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