what is the best 939 PCIE motherbaord?

[DCU1976]

Currently, I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 motherboard with AGP 8X and am looking to upgrade to a PCIE motherboard and video card. And be some what future proof.

I want to be able to move all my current hardware(Athlon 3000+, 1GB PC3200, HD) over to the new motherboard. With plans in the future to upgrade only the processor.

What is the best 939 PCIE motherboard out there?

 

[themisfit610]

I'm pretty happy with my Abit KN8 SLI...

I think a more relevant question is what chipset is best..

IMO, the nForce 4 or SLI is the way to go for 939. You can get SLI if you want dual GPUs in the future, or a big RAID card, and the regular if not. They're both very fast and stable. Any decent manufacturer has a good 939 board still

~MiSfit

 

[DCU1976]

Originally posted by: themisfit610
I'm pretty happy with my Abit KN8 SLI...

I think a more relevant question is what chipset is best..

IMO, the nForce 4 or SLI is the way to go for 939. You can get SLI if you want dual GPUs in the future, or a big RAID card, and the regular if not. They're both very fast and stable. Any decent manufacturer has a good 939 board still

~MiSfit

I agree the best question is what is the best chipset, I like the Nforce motherboards and all I can find that is the newest chipset is the 6150, am I correct? Can I use the AM2 motherboards with my processor and memory setup? I am using my computer primarily for gaming. Thanks for your reply!

 

[htne]

939 NOT EQUAL AM2

These are different cpu sockets. If you have a socket 939 cpu, you MUST buy a socket 939 motherboard, or else buy a new cpu.

 

[NXIL]

Currently, I have a Gigabyte GA-K8NS-939 motherboard with AGP 8X and am looking to upgrade to a PCIE motherboard and video card. And be some what future proof. \

Dear DCU,

socket 939 is not future proof at all: socket 939 motherboards and CPUs are being discontinued now. They are still sold in stores, but, there is not going to be much in the way of upgrades in the future.

Since you have to get a new motherboard anyway, it would probably be best to switch to either the AMD socket AM2 version, or, to Intel socket 775. Both of these are going to have quad core CPUs available at decent prices in a few months or so.

You will have to swap out your DDR memory for DDR2, but, DDR2 has gotten so incredibly cheap in the past month that it is a good time to do it--costs about half as much as DDR 400 right now.

If you can buy a CPU that costs about $200 and up, go Core 2 Duo. For less than $200, get an AMD socket AM2 CPU.

Get 2 x 1GB of ram--about $75 dollars or so now!

Since the newer CPUs run cool, you should be able to re-use your case and power supply.

Also: you can use your old system as a backup/server machine....hey, are you backing up on a regular basis? Probably not....keep the old socket 939 tucked away somewhere, fire it up to use as a backup.....

HTH,

NXIL

 

[themisfit610]

Yeah... I was / am in the same situation. 939 is pretty much dead, as far as sockets go. I would just get a cheap 939 board for now, maybe some extra ram and wait another 6 months and invest in a solid Core 2 Duo or whatever is hot then

~MiSfit

 

[mruffin75]

Foxconn have some pretty decent 939 motherboards.. I bought two of them (different times) from Newegg (based on the 6150 chipset), and they work quite well.. stable as a rock, they're usually on all day every day..

Only problem is they don't have hidef audio.. but for the price I can't complain.. they were pretty cheap...

 

[bigsnyder]

Look for a s939 mobo in the For Sale/Trade trade forum.

 

[wingless]

Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe or DFI NF4 SLI-DR Expert UT or similar.

Honestly I don't know how many good s939 boards you can find anymore.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131568

Theres one.

 

[Binky]

939 is dead so go cheap. The Asrock 939dual series are cheap and stable, with the added advantage of using both AGP and PCIe.

IMHO, don't dump too much money into an old platform. CPU prices on dead platforms also increase (relative to current processors) rapidly after they stop making them, so expect any 939 CPU upgrade to cost you much more than its worth compared to a newer Core2 or AM2 processor. The prices are even worse at the top of that platforms speed range (i.e. the 4400-4600+).

 

[f4phantom2500]

i also think you should just go for am2; you can get an x2 3600 for like $60 and a tforce 550 for like $70 and 2 gigs of ram for ~$75 and you could even reuse your 939 heatsink. if you really wanna go cheap though, get the msi neo4-fi from geeks.com; it's been in the hot deals forum for a long time now. it's an nf4 ultra board for like $45 shipped. even has firewire; it's basically the neo 4 platinum with like 2 less sata connectors and only one pci-e x16 slot. (maybe fewer usb ports but whatever).

http://www.geeks.com/details.a...-11-2006&cm_cat=358129

i haven't seen them in stock in awhile (don't check often), but you never know...

 

[DCU1976]

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500
i also think you should just go for am2; you can get an x2 3600 for like $60 and a tforce 550 for like $70 and 2 gigs of ram for ~$75 and you could even reuse your 939 heatsink. if you really wanna go cheap though, get the msi neo4-fi from geeks.com; it's been in the hot deals forum for a long time now. it's an nf4 ultra board for like $45 shipped. even has firewire; it's basically the neo 4 platinum with like 2 less sata connectors and only one pci-e x16 slot. (maybe fewer usb ports but whatever).

http://www.geeks.com/details.a...-11-2006&cm_cat=358129

i haven't seen them in stock in awhile (don't check often), but you never know...

I agree , I am going the AM2 route now, please check out my For Trade thread HERE

 

[RedBeard]

* Another vote for a DFI Lanparty board or a Ultra-D