939 challenge do your best

dalex · 8 Aug 2006 at 17:00

i am going to build a new system for my brother with 939 due to the prices at the moment
i am only looking for the tower with hard drive sata 2 minimum 250 gb and mobo needs to be asrock dual sata as i need to be able to do agp and pcie i have monitor(17" lcd),keyboards etc
it will be used mainly for gaming and video decoding
budget of £550 max
thanks
dave

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 17:26

I dont get it, you need both AGP and PCI-E yet you have a budget that you could fit a new card into.

Here's a spec including graphics card PCI-E.

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK) 1
£35.95 £35.95
CP-175-AM AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-175-AM) 1
£65.95 £65.95
HS-000-AC Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 Ultra TC CPU Cooler (Socket 754) (HS-000-AC) 1
£4.95 £4.95
MY-079-CS Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS) 1
£129.95 £129.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO) 1
£126.95 £126.95
CD-076-SA Samsung SH-W163 16x16 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) (CD-076-SA) 1
£23.95 £23.95
CA-025-EN Enermax Liberty 500W ELT500AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-025-EN) 1
£59.95 £59.95
Subtotal £447.65
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £9.95
VAT £80.08
Total £537.68

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 17:27

Used that memory and grahpics card before with the dual sata 2 so i know it works, plus i've ran it on a lower Liberty the 400W, but the 500W with give you more options in the upgradability.

Choose the OEM cpu with custom cooler for 2 reasons.

Firstly you'll get better out of the Akasa, and its cheap.

Secondly the OEM are guaranteed San Diego core, where as the Retail are not.

dalex · 8 Aug 2006 at 17:39

we have a few gaphics cards in the family and sometimes they move around , we have both agp and pcie on the go ,so this build needs a good card but also needs to accomodate other cards
i also need hard drive,case and floppy in the budget
dave

dalex · 8 Aug 2006 at 17:46

i thought this would be a good challenge for the best £550 939 set up before 939 disapears
dave

Trigger · 8 Aug 2006 at 18:31

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£35.95 £35.95
MY-005-GL GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value Dual Channel Kit CAS2.5 (GE1GB3200BHDC) (MY-005-GL)
£64.95 £64.95
HD-018-SA Samsung SpinPoint P SP2504C 250GB SATA-II 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-018-SA)
£42.50 £42.50
CA-027-AN Antec SLK3000B Midi Tower Case - No PSU (CA-027-AN)
£29.95 £29.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN)
£40.95 £40.95
CD-030-NE NEC ND4570 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-030-NE)
£21.95 £21.95
HD-001-OK OcUK Value Floppy Drive - Black (HD-001-OK)
£5.95 £5.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£126.95 £126.95
CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM)
£89.95 £89.95
Subtotal £459.10
VAT £80.35
Total £539.45

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 19:55

The San Diego is cheaper, and better at stock.

Think the X2 isnt the best out of the two at stock for gaming, the SD is a better choice. The SD also has a larger cache.

The Sata DVDRW is also £7 more, again a better choice imo.

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:01

IMO, this looks better....

MB-002-AK Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 (Socket 939 & Upgradable to AM2) AGP & PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-002-AK)
£35.95 £35.95
CP-175-AM AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego (Socket 939) - OEM (CP-175-AM)
£65.95 £65.95
HS-000-AC Arctic Cooling Silencer 64 Ultra TC CPU Cooler (Socket 754) (HS-000-AC)
£4.95 £4.95
GX-044-CO Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)
£126.95 £126.95
CD-076-SA Samsung SH-W163 16x16 DVD±RW Serial ATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) (CD-076-SA)
£23.95 £23.95
CA-026-EN Enermax Liberty 400W ELT400AWT ATX2.2 Modular SLI Compliant PSU (CA-026-EN)
£40.95 £40.95
MY-026-CS Corsair 1GB DDR XMS3200C2 Pro TwinX (2x512MB) CAS2 (MY-026-CS)
£84.95 £84.95
CA-020-AK Akasa AK-ZEN-01-BK Zen Black Case (CA-020-AK)
£27.95 £27.95
HD-105-WD Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB 1600YD SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-105-WD)
£40.95 £40.95
Subtotal £452.55
Shipping (City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)) £10.95
VAT £81.12
Total £544.62

San Diego is on special this week.

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:03

BTW, the cooler says socket 754, but its also 939, i have that cooler myself on my venice 3200 (939).

Trigger · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:04

NEC DVDRW's are better, end of. Also, SATA optical drives have been known to be rather problematic so why bother when there is little or no performance gain?

There is also the minor problem that your spec has no hard drive, case or PSU

Lastly, the 4000+ may be slightly better at gaming but the X2 will be better at encoding.

t31os · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:07

Sure he mentioned gaming, oh yes because he did, and re-read the thread, i posted a second spec. Spec does include PSU btw, re-read again.

I'm not gonna continue to argue though, down to the OP to make his own decision.

dalex · 8 Aug 2006 at 20:37

thanks for the specs so far but ithought i would get a few more variations
dave