939 Board w/ AGP

[slickg]

I was just wondering if anyone recommends a certain 939 board w/ AGP over another? I am in the search for one right now and having no luck. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Snakexor]

msi neo2 platinum

 

[Kabob]

Hrm...what was the name of that Soltek board that got great reviews...bah, I can't remember. Something like the SLK8T***...wish I could be more help. AAT did a review of it though when it came out and loved it.

*edit* AHA, here it is: Soltek K8TPro-939

Didn't the Neo2 Platinum have a TON of problems when it came out? Did they ever resolve them? I seem to remember a large percentage of them having to be replaced.

 

[Seekermeister]

I have used the MSI K8T Neo 2-F and the Asus A8V, but I think that they may have been discontinued. There are versions of these still available, but I'm not familiar with the differences. I had to RMA the MSI three times...that is the reason that I have the A8V also, which has stood up well. If I were going to buy another, I would get an nForce board. with dual SATAs.

 

[thegimp03]

I have an Asus A8V in my other rig and it works great. Have upgraded to PCI-e since.

 

[Oyeve]

What about the Asrock 939dual mobo with AGP and PCI-E? Its pretty cheap and when you decide to go PCI-E you have it. My 2 pennys.

 

[imported_Imp]

I have the ASsRock 939Dual-SATA2 or something board. Has AGP and PCI, but I don't recommend it. POS was defective and still is; wasted a whole 3 months of my time troubleshooting cause of a faulty SATA onboard controller that quite a few people had issues with. Others got it to work, but for their quality and support alone, I'm hoping people reconsider before wasting money on their crap.

On that note, why must you have AGP? It may be worth the extra $150 or so to just get a PCI and score a pretty good video card ~7600gt.

 

[cubby1223]

I've had the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, no problems at all with it. When the VSTA version came out, I swapped boards, again no problems at all. Not saying the other poster is full of it, just saying that every manufacturer makes some defective boards, whether it be ASRock, MSI, DFI, Asus, Soltek, etc. etc. etc. - you're going to find groups of people with problems with many manufacturers, and is not always representative of the overall quality of a product.

I wouldn't hesitate for an instant to put together another system with an ASRock dual board if the situation warranted it. It's a unique product that no one else offers. The only other agp & pci-e boards use some type of cripped agp slot that is incompatible with ~3/4 of all agp video cards, whereas the ASRock board is I believe compatible with all AGP & PCI-e cards (well, except like the obvious AGP 1x cards, but all AGP 8x boards are incompatible with those).

 

[Bill Kunert]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I've had the ASRock 939Dual-SATA2, no problems at all with it. When the VSTA version came out, I swapped boards, again no problems at all. Not saying the other poster is full of it, just saying that every manufacturer makes some defective boards, whether it be ASRock, MSI, DFI, Asus, Soltek, etc. etc. etc. - you're going to find groups of people with problems with many manufacturers, and is not always representative of the overall quality of a product.

I wouldn't hesitate for an instant to put together another system with an ASRock dual board if the situation warranted it. It's a unique product that no one else offers. The only other agp & pci-e boards use some type of cripped agp slot that is incompatible with ~3/4 of all agp video cards, whereas the ASRock board is I believe compatible with all AGP & PCI-e cards (well, except like the obvious AGP 1x cards, but all AGP 8x boards are
incompatible with those).

I had the same experience with the Dual SATA2. Very good board for the money.

 

[smthmlk]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
What about the Asrock 939dual mobo with AGP and PCI-E? Its pretty cheap and when you decide to go PCI-E you have it. My 2 pennys.

The 939dual-sata2 is one of the worst motherboards I've ever encountered. Could not achieve stability with it with everything at stock. Tried *every* driver version from ULi and NV, tons of bios's, nvidia & ati agp & pci-e video cards (and about 10 different drivers from each), different psu's, different ram (all known to work), and even different procs (also known to work)--no stability. I've seen too many people discuss the same problems I had with mine to conclude mine was just a fluke. Sure, the board technically works, and if all you want to do is play minesweeper and run firefox, it'll be fine I learned my lesson with the 939dual-sata2: stay far away from gimmicky motherboards; there's probably a very good reason why every other manufacturer doesn't incorporate the gimmick.

 

[Rage187]

I use a ULI Dual-SATAII

great board for the money

 

[uo7]

Originally posted by: smthmlk

Originally posted by: Oyeve
What about the Asrock 939dual mobo with AGP and PCI-E? Its pretty cheap and when you decide to go PCI-E you have it. My 2 pennys.

The 939dual-sata2 is one of the worst motherboards I've ever encountered. Could not achieve stability with it with everything at stock. Tried *every* driver version from ULi and NV, tons of bios's, nvidia & ati agp & pci-e video cards (and about 10 different drivers from each), different psu's, different ram (all known to work), and even different procs (also known to work)--no stability. I've seen too many people discuss the same problems I had with mine to conclude mine was just a fluke. Sure, the board technically works, and if all you want to do is play minesweeper and run firefox, it'll be fine I learned my lesson with the 939dual-sata2: stay far away from gimmicky motherboards; there's probably a very good reason why every other manufacturer doesn't incorporate the gimmick.

The only bad thing about the board for me was the onboard sound. It's pretty bad.
Still running my opteron 170 @ 2.7ghz 1.35 volts, stock cooler. went from a 6800 agp to a 7900gs pcie still no problems. I love this "gimmick"

 

[Blain]

You can even run an AM2 combo on the 939Dual-SATA2, using an AM2CPU board (requires DDR2).

 

[Captante]

The MSI Neo 2 Platinum is a very good choice if you can find one still in stock somwhere, just be sure to update the BIOS to the latest version before installing Windows & it'll be fine. The only socket 939 boards with AGP I've built systems with recently (because they were all I could find in stock) have been Epox EP-9NDA3I's and they have actually been
pretty stable, although not the best overclocking choice... despite what it says on the Epox website they support 2000 mhz HT A64's without any problems.

 

[Big Lar]

Best 1 I ran in agp was the Gigabyte, I think you can still get them at futurepower. I also ran the Neo-2f which was decent, as well as the DFI, but the Giga was the most stable for me.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Big Lar
Best 1 I ran in agp was the Gigabyte, I think you can still get them at futurepower. I also ran the Neo-2f which was decent, as well as the DFI, but the Giga was the most stable for me.

Sure, but can you run both types of video cards?
939 and AM2 processors?
DDR and DDR2 memory?
I didn't think so... I WIN!!!! :thumbsup::laugh::thumbsup:

 

[Makaveli]

I'm running msi neo2 platinum with a side effect modded bios, it has alot more settings than the standard bios. Runs great.


http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.aspx?rigid=16172

 

[fireandicefuel]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
What about the Asrock 939dual mobo with AGP and PCI-E? Its pretty cheap and when you decide to go PCI-E you have it. My 2 pennys.

another vote for the Asrock board. It is flawless.

 

[Bruizer]

MSI Neo2 Platinum! Ran it for a over a year and never gave me any problems with the exception of some CMOS issues reseting my bios when i cut power completely away from the CP (such as unplugging it, not shutting it down). Kinda sucked when i had to upgrade to a different board for PCI-E.