Cheap S939 mobo...

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KillerCars

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Hi,

I'm currently having problems with my motherboard, I think the northbridge is damaged beyond repair. Can anyone tell me a good board that I can get cheaply to replace my current board? I have a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D atm, very good board except for the northbridge overheating and damaging itself. I don't seem to be able to find many boards for S939 anymore??

Any suggestions?
 
what makes you thing it the NB and not say the proc or mem or even a bios problem.
As to getting a 939MB you might have to try a auction site as Cob said.

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head onto ebay and grab yourself another DFI board, you should get an Ultra-D for about 30ish. Might not be new but that seriously is one fab board :cool:
 
I just love my DFI its one hell of a MB got it from OCUK for £65 a week latter they went to £128 I got off lightly on that score.
as said if you can find on get it and pencil the sli bridge and your MB is SLI com
works a treat.

Dean
The other one is a MSI S939 VIA K8T800 DDR400 6cRealTek AUDIO LAN
 
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ozzy,

You need to remove that link before the mods wake up.... competitor links not allowed.

Also that mainboard is a very old design.

Only supports 2GB ram and is AGP

Second user board by far the better option... though prices on certain auction sites often get silly. I bid on a few but eventually got one from MM.

You can get an mATX ASUS A8V-VM SE for around £30 with a PCI-E slot or a Foxconn SKT939 Nforce4-SLI chipset for around £45. I don't know much about either of them but that's about as cheap as it gets new

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I recently ( Few months actually ) got a replacement board when I thought my old A8N-SLI was going to pot.

I got another NForce 4 SLI Board... Cheap and nasty.

Paid £35 brand spankers for it and its a fantastic board... Esp for the price.

Only issue I have with it, is that when I do use SLI, the bottom PCIE slot covers over *** top CPI slot and with a big cooler, it covers both the top and middle.

But then, they all do to a point.

Anyway, I have just been back to where I got it from, and they still have them.

I also did a check on a number of other places that I regularly get my parts from, and funnily enough, there isnt a single supplier who does not have 939 boards.

Im rather surprised you have not been able to source a replacement.

Even OCUK still have one.

Or are you after specifically, the DFI?

Cant say I blame you, but like I said, that cheap and nasty one I got was fine for taking the x2 up a little ( didnt risk silly clocks because its onl;y a file server so no use )
 
Fatrakoon: I would have liked a decent replacement if not the same one but I suppose I don't have to because it is now my girlfriend's PC (my second pc :p) so it probably will remain at normal clocks from now on. I have a new one that I use to play the more demanding games, but I at least want the other one to be able to play titan quest! It's hardly a demanding game on all low settings.

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was the northbridge temps not a problem for other people on the DFI board? I thought the stock fan sucked so surely other people have experienced problems with it too?
 
keep the NB temps around 50 or below and you won't have a problem, using the ITE software you can keep the NB fan around 5000rpm which isn't noisy at all and will keep desired temps ....unless you have a mounting problem.
 
a mounting problem?

hmmm... my northbridge cooler isn't exactly the sturdiest thing... but the northbridge temps were showing as less than 40 so I didn't think that would be making a difference?
 
your original post said you had a problem with the NB temp overheating....and just now you said it's below 40c ...i don't follow you tbh.
 
yeah but in the past it has overheated and damaged itself... now i have a new heatsink on it which keeps it below 40C but it still crashes coz it's damaged.

follow me now?
 
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