[CAT] Scratching Post

I've been pondering a change of motherboard lately. I know mine is shite and I'm pretty sure it's the cause of the weird behavior of my PC. I have an athlon 64 3700 which is running fine however, the rest of my stuff I think is OK, and really I think that the only thing I could really benefit from upgrading would be the motherboard. So I'm wondering what would be a good choice. Seems like those CPUs have been out for a long time so by now a good mobo could be found for not very much which would make it worthy... any recommendations?

I saw the Asus A8N SLI deluxe, would that work? I can't tell how recent it is.

Since it accepts athlon X2 cpus apparently I could eventually, 2 wars later, evolve into dual core CPU territory...

My machine is quite ancient but it works fine for me so I'm in no rush really... except for stability issues...

I couldn't tell you. Newegg doesn't even carry 939 boards anymore. Heck, my dual core AM2 slot will turn 3 in October.

My favourite stockist of all things componenty has exactly ONE 939 mobo and that is some horrible asrock thing that I wouldn't touch.

Ebay might be your best bet. You could probably pick up a dual core CPU to go with it fairly cheaply. May as well.

Socket 939 is what, 5 years old? It's a bit hard to come by these days.

heh, I'd have offered you mine but the wife finally switched over to my 939 that had my AMD 3800 on it...wasn't that great though...MSI something or another. Tell me its not 5 years old...Damn I remember I got it right as the AM2's were coming out because they had some wicked deals. I've still got my old intel P4P delux with the pentium 2.6, a Radeon 9800pro AIW and an Audigy 2ZS working. I'm thinking I'll put my old version of XP on it and see if I can use it for storage.

Chodaboy wrote:I'm in no rush really... except for stability issues...

That sure sounds like a reason to rush. Motherboard issues don't just go away. They eventually lead to a dead motherboard.

^ This is true. My mobo died last week. It had been acting strange and unstable for a few weeks leading up to the failure, but I never got any tell tell signs that gave me the hint that the mobo was gonna' die. Then it just died.

Now Kenny is running a jerry-rigged eMachine. Let that be a caution to you, Choda!

I like what Vent does on your machine, Kenny. It stores up all of what Pure and I say for about 10 minutes, then dumps it on kenny all at once. He keys his mic and we get to re-live everything we said in teh past.

I'm fairly convinced that the vent issue has something to do with W7. I've had the same problem on two different machines, and neither machine had that problem until I installed W7.

Oh, and the jerry rigged emachine SUCKS!!!!! My monitor is hooked up to my Graphics card, but it acts like it's running off of the on board video. Even watching videos, it gets all jittery. Every bit of the video processing seems to be getting left to the CPU instead of the graphics card, and I can't figure out why. Well, other than it's an emachine.

It's prolly onboard sound, right? I wonder if the sound is eating up too many CPU cycles.

Could be.

DickSchittlippz wrote:

Chodaboy wrote:I'm in no rush really... except for stability issues...

That sure sounds like a reason to rush. Motherboard issues don't just go away. They eventually lead to a dead motherboard.

Nah, it's pretty occasional, and the frequency has stayed the same for a long time...

I think I may go with the ASUS A8N SLI deluxe, and like Span said look for a cheap dual core thing to go with it. But then I may have to upgrade my memory... and I end up with 3 upgrades instead of 1!

IIRC mine was an A8N.

It was DOA but the replacement was bombproof for several years.

You should be able to keep your old memory. It just makes sense to stick a dual core proc in there. They weren't that dear last I looked although you could spend stupid money on them if you wanted.