best motherboard for 64 x2 4200+

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

The AM2s will have some future upgrade potential, the 939s won't. Also you
can put more RAM on an AM2, upto 8G, the 939s can only handle 4G. The RAM
differences are due to DIMM limitations as opposed to board limitations.
The biggest DDR DIMM is 1G, the biggest DDR2 DIMM is 2G.

There won't be any performance differences between an AM2 and a 939.
Except for the memory controller there are no differences between the 939
and AM2 processors.

Hold off your purchase for a month. Intel is introducing Conroe on July 24
and AMD has scheduled big price decreases to coincide with Intel's
introduction.

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

And they're all worthless without knowing what you are going to do with
the machine. Example, I've got 4 PCI HDTV tuners and a PCI ATA raid card
in this MB filling up all 5 PCI slots and an AGP video card. Most opinions
you will probably get will be for PCI-E MB's that only have 2 or 3 PCI
slots and no AGP slot.. Totally worthless to me. There is no best MB. Only
one that meets your needs. And you are the only person that knows what
those are. AM2 will certainly be the latest and the best IF you have a
PCI-E video card and don't need a lot of regular PCI slots.

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

The AM2s will have some future upgrade potential, the 939s won't. Also you
can put more RAM on an AM2, upto 8G, the 939s can only handle 4G. The RAM
differences are due to DIMM limitations as opposed to board limitations.
The biggest DDR DIMM is 1G, the biggest DDR2 DIMM is 2G.

There won't be any performance differences between an AM2 and a 939.
Except for the memory controller there are no differences between the 939
and AM2 processors.

Hold off your purchase for a month. Intel is introducing Conroe on July 24
and AMD has scheduled big price decreases to coincide with Intel's
introduction.




How does the cost of memory (this week) for AM2 compare to 939 ?

I'm probbaly looking at a pair of 512MB simms.

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:49:12 -0400, Al Dykes wrote:

In article ,
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

The AM2s will have some future upgrade potential, the 939s won't. Also you
can put more RAM on an AM2, upto 8G, the 939s can only handle 4G. The RAM
differences are due to DIMM limitations as opposed to board limitations.
The biggest DDR DIMM is 1G, the biggest DDR2 DIMM is 2G.

There won't be any performance differences between an AM2 and a 939.
Except for the memory controller there are no differences between the 939
and AM2 processors.

Hold off your purchase for a month. Intel is introducing Conroe on July 24
and AMD has scheduled big price decreases to coincide with Intel's
introduction.




How does the cost of memory (this week) for AM2 compare to 939 ?

I'm probbaly looking at a pair of 512MB simms.

Check pricewatch or Newegg. The pricing of DDR2 and DDR are pretty close
at the moment, in the long run DDR2 will be cheaper. New RAMs in the
newest processes will all be DDR2. BTW I'd get a pair of 1G DDR2 RAMs if I
were you. RAM is pretty cheap, there is no reason to skimp unless you are
really strapped for cash.

Since AGP is out and PCI-E is in i will go with PCI-E and replace my main
video card. My other two video cards can stay PCI. I was looking for user
opinions as to what they have found to be reliable. My 754 board is MSI so
was curious what the popular and reliable current board was out there.

Thanks again



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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

And they're all worthless without knowing what you are going to do with
the machine. Example, I've got 4 PCI HDTV tuners and a PCI ATA raid card
in this MB filling up all 5 PCI slots and an AGP video card. Most opinions
you will probably get will be for PCI-E MB's that only have 2 or 3 PCI
slots and no AGP slot.. Totally worthless to me. There is no best MB. Only
one that meets your needs. And you are the only person that knows what
those are. AM2 will certainly be the latest and the best IF you have a
PCI-E video card and don't need a lot of regular PCI slots.

--
Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org
http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv
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HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

The AM2s will have some future upgrade potential, the 939s won't. Also you
can put more RAM on an AM2, upto 8G, the 939s can only handle 4G. The RAM
differences are due to DIMM limitations as opposed to board limitations.
The biggest DDR DIMM is 1G, the biggest DDR2 DIMM is 2G.

There won't be any performance differences between an AM2 and a 939.
Except for the memory controller there are no differences between the 939
and AM2 processors.

Hold off your purchase for a month. Intel is introducing Conroe on July 24
and AMD has scheduled big price decreases to coincide with Intel's
introduction.



Great info. Thanks

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:23:34 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Since AGP is out and PCI-E is in i will go with PCI-E and replace my main
video card. My other two video cards can stay PCI. I was looking for user
opinions as to what they have found to be reliable. My 754 board is MSI so
was curious what the popular and reliable current board was out there.

Thanks again

There is no reason not to stick with MSI. I have two MSI motherboards, an
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with a 3800+ (single core) and an MSI Neo4 Platinum
with an X2 4400+. Both boards have been reliable. I run my systems 24/7
and I haven't experienced any problems or crashes. I'm using Fedora Core
on both of them, 64 bit FC5 on the X2 4400+ and 32 bit FC5 on the 3800+
system. I'm sure that ASUS or Tyan Nforce motherboards are probably just
as reliable but I don't have any experience with either so I can't say for
sure.

There is no reason not to stick with MSI. I have two MSI motherboards, an
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum with a 3800+ (single core) and an MSI Neo4 Platinum
with an X2 4400+. Both boards have been reliable. I run my systems 24/7
and I haven't experienced any problems or crashes. I'm using Fedora Core
on both of them, 64 bit FC5 on the X2 4400+ and 32 bit FC5 on the 3800+
system. I'm sure that ASUS or Tyan Nforce motherboards are probably just
as reliable but I don't have any experience with either so I can't say for
sure.


Your input is appreciated. thanks

"General Schvantzkoph" wrote in message
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:27:22 -0500, Dave P wrote:

Looking for the best motherboard for the 64 x2 4200+

Would you all recommend the new socket AM2 over socket 939?

Welcome all opinions.

TIA,
DaveP

The AM2s will have some future upgrade potential, the 939s won't. Also you
can put more RAM on an AM2, upto 8G, the 939s can only handle 4G. The RAM
differences are due to DIMM limitations as opposed to board limitations.
The biggest DDR DIMM is 1G, the biggest DDR2 DIMM is 2G.

There won't be any performance differences between an AM2 and a 939.
Except for the memory controller there are no differences between the 939
and AM2 processors.

Hold off your purchase for a month. Intel is introducing Conroe on July 24
and AMD has scheduled big price decreases to coincide with Intel's
introduction.


Any word on which models will be included in the price drops?I was going to
go with the AM2 platform,probably the 4400 or 4800,because of the upgrade
potential.