I am the previous woner of an A7V133/1GHz Athlon t-bird. It blew last
weekend and I was wondering is anyone could recommend a good decent system.
Ok I decided to go a little over my budget, how does the following sound:
1 x ASUS A8V Deluxe/WIFI-G Socket 939 K8T800Pro Motherboard
1 x AMD AthlonT 64 3000+ Processor Retail (754)
1 x 512M PC3200 DDR RAM Kingmax/Kingston
The ASUS A8V Deluxe will only handle upto 6 x IDE/ATA devices and 2 x SATA
devices right?
The thing that concerns me is that this 64 technology is fairly new. Wont
ASUS bring out a revision of its A8V mobo? Newer revisions are always
better. Should I wait? I'm sick of using my laptop
Thanks everyone!
Sarah
In your post, I see you are purchasing a Socket 939 motherboard
and plugging a Socket 754 processor into it.
I would recommend a A7N8X-E Deluxe or an A7N8X-X motherboard and
an AthlonXP as an alternate choice. You can use your old ram
initially, while you test out the system. No sense spending
big bucks if you don't need to. And, if you are an overclocker,
you could also look for an AthlonXP-M mobile processor, which
can be overclocked to 2400 to 2600MHz.
If we go with your original plan, this is what you could buy
(prices from Newegg.com):
A8V $152 (don't buy it until you have verified it is version 2.
The AGP/PCI lock works on the version 2, according to
info on Anandtech.)
AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 3500+, 512K L2, 2.2GHz $352.63
AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 3800+, 512KB L2, 2.4 GHz, $652.00
AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64 FX-53, 1MB L2, 2.4GHz $828.95
2 sticks PC3200 unbuffered, for dual channel $xx.xx
You don't need expensive RAM, as the memory controller on the
Athlon64 has excellent performance. Premium ram is not a
requirement.
The manual is here. Have a read through and see if it has
the features you want:
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket939/a8v-deluxe/e1642_a8v_deluxe.pdf
From page 11 of the manual:
Storage SouthBridge supports
- 2 x UltraDMA 133 connectors <-- 4 drives
- 2 x Serial ATA with RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD <-- 2 drives
Promise ® PDC20378 RAID controller
- 1 x UltraDMA 133 connector <-- 2 drives
- 2 x Serial ATA connectors <-- 2 drives
- support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and Multiple
RAID configurations
This web page tells you what processors can be used. The FX
has 1MB L2 and the others have 512KB L2.
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
"The following table shows the support for CPU / Motherboard
CPU Since PCB Since BIOS Memo
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (Socket939) ALL ALL
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Socket939) ALL ALL
AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 (Socket939) ALL ALL"
If you have the money, I think the A8V version 2 will be a kickass
product.
You can read the Anandtech article here:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2128
Have a look at post #4 in this thread.
http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74370
In the signature of the poster, you can see these two numbers:
3DMark03 15,552 3DMark01 32,699
Hard to believe...
HTH,
Paul
