S939 upgrade time.

[Flibster]

PSU and motherboard have officially crapped out.
It's a S939 X2 4200+ with 4gb ram and all sorts of mixed other components.

Rather than trying to repair - I was thinking replace.

So, looking at getting this to go in it instead.

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3P Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - £93.99
LG GGC-H20L Blu-Ray Reader & HD-DVD ROM Serial ATA Drive - Retail - £79.99
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Modular Power Supply - £75.99
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM - £66.99 x 2
Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 "LGA775 Core 2" 2.50GHz (800FSB) - Retail £62.09
OCZ Gold Edition 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 Dual Channel - £38.99 x 2
Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir CPU Cooler - £33.34

All for £484.65

I know- 8gb of ram and 2tb of HDD - HDD's will go into a different machine and the 2x500gb's will be swapped across. RAM is just cheap though.

Any other suggestions?

 

[Streeteh]

I made the jump from 939 recently too and was very pleased with the results

If i'm honest i'd ditch 4gig of ram and fork out for a slightly better processor. If you spent a little bit more you could venture into quad core territory (a Q6700 would result in approx £500 if you cut out half of the ram) . Ram is only going to get cheaper and i haven't noticed any need for extra ram yet when running 4gig in windows 7 and i can see quad core becoming more widely utilized in the next year or so.

 

[bledd]

just get a £50 blu ray reader

you're never going to own any HDDVD's anyway.. (unless you already have some )

the stock intel cooler is pretty good tbh, have one in my media centre pc on my 5300, nice and quiet and does the job


went from an opteron 175 to the 5300, a nice jump in performance


I'd also consider the jump to a quad, they're damn fast

 

[Flibster]

I made the jump from 939 recently too and was very pleased with the results

If i'm honest i'd ditch 4gig of ram and fork out for a slightly better processor. If you spent a little bit more you could venture into quad core territory (a Q6700 would result in approx £500 if you cut out half of the ram) . Ram is only going to get cheaper and i haven't noticed any need for extra ram yet when running 4gig in windows 7 and i can see quad core becoming more widely utilized in the next year or so.

Possibility I suppose. Will have to have a shufti.

just get a £50 blu ray reader

you're never going to own any HDDVD's anyway.. (unless you already have some )

Only around 40 or so.

Got a bluray writer in my main machine, so when the time comes, they can all be converted. Would be nice to get rid of the X360 drive though.