Athlon 64 fx 51

[Cervantesx]

basically trying to help a friend find a mother board for it can anyone give me a recondmendation?

 

[elbert]

basically trying to help a friend find a mother board for it can anyone give me a recondmendation?

First let me say the FX-51 is getting up in age so you want to go cheap. Now if this is to be a gaming only system with the FX-51 OC'ed you need a cheap SLI/Crossfire mobo. The good new is the single core FX-51 is good for most any game and can OC for top notch performance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135008
This is a nice cheap board and the only down side I see is no SATAII. This mobo is on a ATI design and may give you problems if you use Nvidia GPU's.

 

[lyssword]

basically trying to help a friend find a mother board for it can anyone give me a recondmendation?

First let me say the FX-51 is getting up in age so you want to go cheap. Now if this is to be a gaming only system with the FX-51 OC'ed you need a cheap SLI/Crossfire mobo. The good new is the single core FX-51 is good for most any game and can OC for top notch performance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135008
This is a nice cheap board and the only down side I see is no SATAII. This mobo is on a ATI design and may give you problems if you use Nvidia GPU's.

Is s939 mobo backwards compatible with s940? cause fx51 is s940

 

[elbert]

basically trying to help a friend find a mother board for it can anyone give me a recondmendation?

First let me say the FX-51 is getting up in age so you want to go cheap. Now if this is to be a gaming only system with the FX-51 OC'ed you need a cheap SLI/Crossfire mobo. The good new is the single core FX-51 is good for most any game and can OC for top notch performance.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135008
This is a nice cheap board and the only down side I see is no SATAII. This mobo is on a ATI design and may give you problems if you use Nvidia GPU's.

Is s939 mobo backwards compatible with s940? cause fx51 is s940
Crap I was think of a FX-55. This will take some digging for a 940 mobo.

 

[Sagekilla]

If you have a S940 FX chip, you're in pretty bad luck. Regardless of what FX chip it is, the S940 chips are incompatible with S939. You'll have to buy a S940 mobo, and I don't even know if they make SLI or CF S940's.

 

[4745454b]

Forget about SLI/CF, good luck finding one with PCIe support. At this point your going to need to look to Ebay/second hand for a motherboard. Frankly, I wouldn't bother with this. The only interesting thing about the FX-51 is the 1MB cache. Requires slower sever memory, no PCIe, and a slow clock. (unless you overclock it.)

Also, I know of no problems with running an ATI video card on an Nvidia motherboard, or vise versa. Matter of fact, my second gaming machine runs a 9700PRO on an NF3-250 chipset.

 

[elbert]

basically trying to help a friend find a mother board for it can anyone give me a recondmendation?

This is the only mobo you'll want for a 940. It has 2 PCI-E slots and can hold up to 24MB of RAM.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813151056&ATT=13-151-056&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch
Let me say for that price of this mobo you'll come out cheaper buying a X2 CPU and an AM2 mobo. $259.99 is sky high IMO but it offers every option that the best AM2's have. The bad thing here is your limited to the FX-51 CPU with no chance of getting a K8L class processor. The best thing about the mobo is 2 slot 940's so you may get some optys able to out perform the 4X4 FX-70 setups.

 

[Cervantesx]

damn, thanks everyone for the help, thats crudy, ill just tell him to scrap that cpu and get something nicer like a e6300 or something...