939 worth it?

[Scougar]

Hi guys,

Was swapping over a motherboard in a friends 2nd or 3rd PC, and just wondering if it's worth keeping the old one.

Swapped from an A8N SLI Deluxe (AMD Socket 939), to an A8N SLI SE as the graphics card no longer worked on that motherboard (the gfx card is fine though (strange!).

The board appears to work with other pci-e graphics cards just fine, I also have some ddr memory, but do you think it's worthwhile trying to get something like an 4400 x2 for it? What can you get out of x2's o/c wise on an average o/c?

 

[Duke]

There are plenty of cheap chips around new and used, so may as well

 

[Scougar]

Just with a quick look, 4400 on here £75 eek and 4800's on ebay (cos people are daft paying this much for old tech: £80 upwards.

Doesn't seem worth getting a chip that can't get to 3ghz or higher though.

 

[MeatLoaf]

An X2 4400+ sold on the MM for £20 i think, cant remember the exact price but it was damm cheap

 

[Happy]

An X2 4400+ sold on the MM for £20 i think, cant remember the exact price but it was damm cheap

Yep, some people let them go for peanuts, others charge far too much.

A AMD FX60 went for £40 or £45 on MM

 

[Scougar]

Ok cool Thanks chaps. Gonna see if I can keep this chaps old motherboard as I doubt he'll have a use for it anymore. See what I can build out of mostly old parts, and the stuff that comes up on members market

 

[Scougar]

ROFL at some of the prices on that auction place and elsewhere. Could buy a really nice c2d system and have current features and tech, with uber performance for the price they want for a single old tech chip. Crazy.

 

[decto]

Best option is a single core... you'll get one of those cheap enough...

Many of the X2's stuggle to hit 2.6Ghz without a fair bump in volts and I'd imagine a 3 year old board will be starting to suffer a little capacitor fade preventing any serious OC.

For what you'll spend on a dual core chip s939 you could pick up a C2D E2xxx, 2GB ram and most of a mainboard second hand and have a much better system for the difference of a couple of beers. DDR1 is also expensive these days. XP SP3 needs a least 1GB, I tried a box on 2x256 and it would have burned the disk led out within a week.

You may drop lucky and pick up a cheap members market CPU but the ones prices at <£30 sell within a few minutes. Perhaps an add in wanted and wait for a sensible offer.