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I recently Bought this, can anyone tell me if its a P.O.S.... I paid a pretty small price for it. Seems to work good so far.
ASROCK 939Dual-SATAII FSB1000,UliM1695+1567,4DDR,AGP8X+PCI-E,3PCI
 
I believe so yes... I read alot of reviews, some bad, some good, like most things these days,,, mine turned out to be good so far
 
I don't realy like mine. I guess if you don't want a exteme overclock it's fine. I moded mine for Vcore and Vdimm, but the cold boot issues drive me mad.

Hay but with AM2 support, both AGP and PCIe it realy is upgradable.
 
I got one for about 2 months now and I am very satisfied with it, they are not the fastest around but for the price (99$can) it is a very solid performer. sata + raid + sata2 for the price is 😛
 
I was going to get a PCIe card for it, but I replaced the POS with a Biostar Tforce6100-939. It has SATA2 RAID, MUCH better sound(with the same chip?) okay video, and more voltage. If you did not know, the sound on the DualSATA2 is realy bad.
 
I listen to internet radio on mine, and it made it sound realy bad. But even a X-FI will not make internet radio sound better than a well designed onboard sound. In my opinion NEVER use the DualSATA2's onboard sound!
 
I get alot of static in my sound when i move my mouse and such.. So i think i will buy a soundcard. i didnt know you could get them so cheap tho.
 
I just started looking around, im in canada and so far i found the Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! 24-Bit Sound Card for $49.95 .. rip off i think.
 
I bought that same asrock board refurb from newegg and worked fine untill i put a pci-e card in it and then i found out the pci-e didn't work. Darn refurb. Friend has one though and he loves it he is running a pci-e 6800gs in it right now and used to run a 9600pro. Runs great just don't get it refurb. Oh and the sound didn't bother me while i had it but i am only running old packard bell speakers lol.
 
Sure it's not just incompatible with the PCIe card? I had a Rosewill 9600 that did not work in mines AGP slot. I had to use a ATi 9200. My AIW 9600 worked fine too.
 
Yeah it was compatible because it was my friends 6800gs 😀 lol. And it worked fine in his. Also tried a 7800gt. Just a problem with the board, you take a chance getting a refurb so i just rmaed it lol.
 
I bought a second DualSATA2 referbished, it had a bad VRM. Vcore went up and down so much it was unstable at stock speed. I sent that back. The other two mobos I bought refurb(A Asus P5P800 for $46 and Biostar Tforce6100-939 for $43) are working fine.
 
Ive had this board for about 6 months now and i must say that i am very satisfied with it. Overclocking wise, i now have my Opty 165 in there running at 2.4Ghz @ 1.375 volts, HTT 266x9...thats about the limit unless you use a modded bios from OCW. Im kinda dissapointed that there arent a whole lot of voltage options in the bios, but thats what you get with a budget board. All in all, i would definetly recommend this for anyone that needs to bridge the gap between AGP->PCI-e or S939->AM2.
 
Depending on how much other hardware you are running in your system, a 350W brand name PSU might do it, but if you have a high powered video card, a few hard drives, an optical drive or 2, and plan on overclocking at all....you will need more than 350W IMO. I cant stress enough that it is highly recommended to not cheap out on a PSU, it will hurt you more than anything, especially if you plan to overclock.
 
Hmm okay it is only 50 bucks I might as well. Alright, so 50 dollars for PSU, 65 for the motherboard, and like 300-400 for a CPU. Do you think an AMD X2 4200+ would be a nice choice? I definately want something to last for a while.

Then that should be it I hope. 1280 ram, with an extra slot to get another gig sometime, a dual core 4200+ processor, a 6800GS AGP video card, a 450watt PSU, and the AGP/PCIe motherboard.

Does that look okay as far as upgrading my computer goes?

This is my case by the way. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144024

Hopefully I dont need a new case too =/

Let me know if I do =p
 
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