Ancient socket 939 motherboards

[secretanchitman]

939 was amazing. i actually sold my opteron 170, a8n32-sli mobo for quite a bit on FS/FT here, and it held up its value pretty dang good i have to say.

 

[nemesismk2]

Long live Socket 939 that is what I say lol

 

[mindless1]

Skt 939 was a handy way to get the last tour of duty out of your old DDR1 memory with the fastest CPU possible, for cheap. $100 I know seems high but there's supply and demand of course.

I can't see the logic in thinking 939 had most of the performance as an equivalent AM2 platform, since you'd have to contrast the latter CPUs available for 939 at high cost, versus earlier AM2 or later AM2 at very low cost. Really no contest, last AM2 board I bought for $50, CPU for a little under $40, o'c it to 3GHz and called that great value... because lots of people really don't need uber-performance, just a solid quality set of parts at the lowest cost. Last 939 CPU I bought (before switching exclusively to newer platforms) was higher priced, single core, also o'c to about 3GHz (both conservative o'c). Sold that system to a friend a few years ago and he's quite happily running mostly single-threaded apps.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: mindless1
Skt 939 was a handy way to get the last tour of duty out of your old DDR1 memory with the fastest CPU possible, for cheap. $100 I know seems high but there's supply and demand of course.

I can't see the logic in thinking 939 had most of the performance as an equivalent AM2 platform, since you'd have to contrast the latter CPUs available for 939 at high cost, versus earlier AM2 or later AM2 at very low cost. Really no contest, last AM2 board I bought for $50, CPU for a little under $40, o'c it to 3GHz and called that great value... because lots of people really don't need uber-performance, just a solid quality set of parts at the lowest cost. Last 939 CPU I bought (before switching exclusively to newer platforms) was higher priced, single core, also o'c to about 3GHz (both conservative o'c). Sold that system to a friend a few years ago and he's quite happily running mostly single-threaded apps.

I purchased an AMD Opteron 180 which is just like a Athlon64 X2 4800 (ie 2.4Ghz Dual Core) because they were the only Socket 939 processors which were still being sold for realistic prices on Ebay.