help i dont know whats going on with amd 939

[TheLaughingMime]

8O i know that the 939 is a dated cpu and with the quad core cpus that intel have i should question having a amd system... with that being said i have a 939 mother board that i want to upgrade to an fx-60 cpu i have wanted the cpu since it came out and was like 1,000$ now that it is a littel cheeper i wanted to know i i should get the fx-60 or if i should go with the AMD Opteron 185 2.60GHz is one better than the other they are both about the same price tigerdirect has the Opteron for like $350 and zipzoomfly has the fx-60 for about $360 what should i get ... and why? i need to upgrade in a bad way i am using a

Asus-A8V Deluxe
T-Rex AMD 3000+ oc to 2 ghz
4 GB Samsung DDR RAM ECC
2XWD Rapton 73GB @ RAID 0
2xSeagate PATA 250 GB @ RAID 0
2XMaxtor PATA 120 GB Raid 0
EVGA 7800 GC OS
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
3X Samsung Light Scribe 18X DVD-RW
Vantec Stealth 520 PSU
Thermaltake Armor Aluminum Case

the system still dose just about every thing that i need it to do but the old cpu needs to go can someone help me chose..? any 939 will be ok for me but i just want to get the best that i can

 

[General_disarray]

I went through the same dilemma last month. I want to wait to upgrade my motherboard for 1-2 yrs until Quad cores become affordable, but desperately needed to upgrade my aging single core. I really wanted a FX-60 but couldn't justify $350.

I ended up getting an Opteron 170 from newegg for $190. The 170 is a great overclocker, if you are comfortable doing it. Mine reached 2.8 GHz with stock voltages. The temps were a little high (~55C max) so I bumped it down to 2.7 (~45C max). I am only air cooling, but I could always add water cooling and I would expect 2.9+ to be easily doable.

Both the Opteron 170 and 165 have great overclocking records. Most chips (expect for rare duds) get up to 2.5-2.7 GHz easily. Like the other poster said the Opteron have locked multipliers (the 170 stops at 10x) so you have to raise the HTT. It gave me no problems even with cheap memory.



ASUS AN832-SLI
Opteron 170 @ 2.7 GHz
Zalman 9500LED Fan
Corsair Valueselect 2GB DDR 400,
2xBFG 7600GT OC in SLI
WD Raptor X 150 GB HD
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Silverstone Strider 600W PSU
Silverstone TJ-09 case

 

[dragonsprayer]

amd stoped making 939 in 2006 - what u see for sale is left overs.

the chips are be sold off in buld fx-60's tiger did them - out know

the fx-62 newegg has alot of those and lots of other 939

prices will go up as supply drops - most likely - it be like agp cards you pay more for a 4200 in 939 then a 4600 am2 by the summer - i am predicting

 

[dragonsprayer]

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