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Best S939 CPU?

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Not my system... but i've just upgraded a friends system to an E8400 overclocked with 4gb and HD4870 etc... but, his old system just fell over with a VDA error and asked me to try and fix it.

I'm being a bit lazy as ill, but reckon it's either the PSU or for some reason the board has genuinely stopped likely the GPU (as my spare PCI-E card works in in (i.e. it boots up the monitor which his now doesn't).

Strangely, he bought himself a 'spare' motherboard identical to the one has already (A8N-SLI deluxe), so that's an option... but getting to the crunch.

The ACTUAL QUESTION!
What's the best S939 he could get to go with this board?

Matthew
 
Thanks Woody.

Reason I didn't rely on the Asus website is simply because its an older motherboard and may not have updated with the latest compatible chips.

Matthew
 
I presume that the 939 system will be clocked, as you say you have clocked your friends E8400 ? If that is the case, then the best 939 cpu would be either the Opteron 165/170/175. All can still be found on various auction sites. The FX-60 was in all honesty a rubbish clocker, and a very expensive one at that. The Opty 185 was not that much of a clocker either.
 
look out for lcb9e and lcbqe steppings.

people getting them on opties were RMAing them because it was "an X2 stepping" turned out to be the most consistantly high clocking stepping ever. the last steppings produced also. my 4800+ lcb9e: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] on water. not that many of the ccbwhatever optys got that far while some 50% or more of LCBxE did

just an example

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3102128&postcount=528

lcbqe [email protected], lcb9e [email protected], LCBIE [email protected], LCBWE [email protected], lcbqe [email protected], LCBQE [email protected] etcetcetc
 
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postmanfw said:
Opty 165 :) As long as board is good for high fsb that is. More L2 cache than a 4800+ too :)
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not so on the cache. but very true on the fsb

the optys the FX and the 4800+ and the 4400+ all ran 2*1mb
the 3800 4200 and 4600 had 2*512

the cache cut come in 2 varieties, one is a cut down toledo, basically identical silicon to the full cache just with some disabled the others have a different core entirely (manchester? i forget) that only has 512k/core to begin with.
 
kitfit1 said:
I presume that the 939 system will be clocked, as you say you have clocked your friends E8400 ? If that is the case, then the best 939 cpu would be either the Opteron 165/170/175. All can still be found on various auction sites. The FX-60 was in all honesty a rubbish clocker, and a very expensive one at that. The Opty 185 was not that much of a clocker either.
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OI i use a FX-60 and it's sitting at 3.1 ghz and has done for yonks, its solid as a rock, so poo you lol
 
Amonlym said:
not so on the cache. but very true on the fsb

the optys the FX and the 4800+ and the 4400+ all ran 2*1mb
the 3800 4200 and 4600 had 2*512

the cache cut come in 2 varieties, one is a cut down toledo, basically identical silicon to the full cache just with some disabled the others have a different core entirely (manchester? i forget) that only has 512k/core to begin with.
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oops my bad....learn something new every day :)
 
I still run a X2 4400+ Toledo that is clocked and it is still doing me fine.

Can still be good chips equiv to the entry level E2*** Core 2's so performance is not that bad.

Problem is some of the pricing you see on socket 939 chips can be a little wacky at times.
 
Yewen said:
I still run a X2 4400+ Toledo that is clocked and it is still doing me fine.

Can still be good chips equiv to the entry level E2*** Core 2's so performance is not that bad.

Problem is some of the pricing you see on socket 939 chips can be a little wacky at times.
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I am running the same chip @ 2.65Ghz under water with temps ranging 40-52C

Performance is not bad overall, but sometimes it will max out and bottleneck everything :p
 
I used to have a 4400x2 that was stable at 3.03ghz under water. Great chip! It was the 89w version rather than the hotter one. Was the setup I had when I joined these forums after moving here from the states in 2006 actually. I shipped it with me via dhl, what a nightmare that was!
 
gurusan said:
I used to have a 4400x2 that was stable at 3.03ghz under water. Great chip! It was the 89w version rather than the hotter one. Was the setup I had when I joined these forums after moving here from the states in 2006 actually. I shipped it with me via dhl, what a nightmare that was!
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Wish mine could do 3Ghz. 1Mhz more than now and it will not boot even if you double the volts! Is one of those ....... chips unfortunately.
 
my 4200+ 939 setup is about to be broken down and flogged

see sig for details of what it can do

it is totally balanced, that is the CPU/RAM=GPU for power.

just upgraded the OC'd 8800GT to a 280GTX and got the exact same crysis+3dmark06 benchmarks give or take 50points. no amount of tweaking the CPU/RAM gives any more performance (i took the cpu from its usual 2.8 to over 3GHZ also the memory clocked up accordingly tried fresh install and drivers removed 2nd card to force pci bus to full x16 etc etc etc etc)

(new asusu mobo and intel chip on its way)
 
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