Athlon64FX-53 and MSI

[bman]

I am at a decision point and would like to feedback from you. I am ready to build a high-end machine and have everything picked out. But I am struggling with the chipset selection.

I will be buying the Athlon64 FX-53 (socket 939). The buz nearly everywhere is on the MSI Neo board, using the nForce3-250 Gb chipset. I love everything I ready about this board and the chipset and was ready to pull the trigger when I had some doubts.

Does this board limit the high end processor that I am buying? Should I be waiting for nVidia to put out a native socket 939 chipset. This FX 939 chip will fir into the 940 socket right?

Am I buying a high-performance engine and putting skinny tires on it?

 

[Obtuse]

Ok, if you're talking about the MSI K8N Neo Platinum, that's a socket 754 mobo. Yeah, it rocks, but it won't take your FX-53. I'm not sure if MSI even has a socket 939 motherboard out right now. According to their site, they have 1 socket 940 board out, which could support a socket 940 FX-53, but that is running a less glamourous VIA chipset.

"The only way to overcome temptation is to yield to it" - Oscar Wilde

 

[o1die]

Asus has a via socket 939 board out for about $200 on pricewatch. Don't know if it has an agp/pci lock for overclocking.

 

[bman]

Guess I was way off in thinking the support was available for 939 so soon. I really like the MSI Neo line of boards, so maybe I'll wait until they have a 939 pin version.

 

[RearAdmiral]

Yea, I'm in the same boat as you...there is only one 939 board right now and that is the Asus board. I personally am going to wait for MSI's 7025 board for socket 939. Unless they get beat by some other board with that chipset.

 

[bman]

Do you have any further info on MSI's 7025 board? I haven't seen a word of it yet. Anyone else talk about a native 939 board yet?

 

[RearAdmiral]

<A HREF="http://www.tt-hardware.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6324" target="_new"> Clicky </A>

First time I tried that, don't know if it will work. Its in a different language however, so try your best haha.

<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/31366B_AMD_Athlon(tm)_FX53_Processor.pdf" target="_new"> This too </A>

Might be something in there too, im checking it out as I type.

 

[RearAdmiral]

It was the motherboard used for benchmarks in the second link.