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I have an A8AE-LE mobo, aka Amberine M SB400 with a Socket 939 currently loaded with an AMD Athlon64 3700+. The HP site says it'll support any AMD Athlon64 X2 that'll fit. Anyone have any thoughts about this beyond what a rare, proprietary and BIOS-locked POS mobo this is (:lol:), particularly with regard to rechipping with an X2?

You'd almost certainly want to buy used. I think the X2 4800+ is the top-end S939 dual-core, although the only thing it's got over the 4600+ is an extra 512KB of cache.

EDIT: Have you considered holding off and waiting until you have enough money to get a new CPU, motherboard, and memory?

Einhander Sn0m4n
DO NOT WANT. 939 has been basically dead for a year. Either get an AM2 or get the superior c2ds: the e6x50s are currently absurdly cheap, and p35-based mobos are also availble on a budget. AMD is bad, but old unsupported AMD is worse.

Amusingly I have a 939 on the shelf. I hate it.

I knew it! I always get stuck with crufty, proprietary, rare-in-the-bad-way hardware! GUUUUGH!

Okay, is there a possibility of stuffing one of you guys' suggested new mobos into this case, or is there a possibility this case has proprietary fittings too?

Stark wrote:Amusingly I have a 939 on the shelf. I hate it.

Could be worse, I'm using one right now with no upgrade path

Yeah, it's on the shelf and not in my box because I just bought a new mobo, chip, RAM and video card due to that situation. Oh, did I forget to mention it was a 939 board WITH AGP? 939 got dropped for AM2 about two months after I bought it, too.

Stark wrote:Yeah, it's on the shelf and not in my box because I just bought a new mobo, chip, RAM and video card due to that situation. Oh, did I forget to mention it was a 939 board WITH AGP? 939 got dropped for AM2 about two months after I bought it, too.

Jesus, that's worse than when I bought a 939 board a couple months before they introduced PCI-E for AMD. (I was pooched though because my old board had died and I didn't really want to wait for months to buy a replacement)

Uraniun235
The sad chain of events was pretty bad: my AGP board died, so for a quick fix I grabbed an AGP 939 board. Days later, the AGP card died, so then I had to BUY A BRAND NEW AGP CARD IN 2006 or replace my whole computer right after replacing the board. Talk about 't3h sucks'.

phongn wrote:

Stark wrote:Amusingly I have a 939 on the shelf. I hate it.

Could be worse, I'm using one right now with no upgrade path

Yeah, my world. And prices here are nearly double whatever the U.S. has.

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:I knew it! I always get stuck with crufty, proprietary, rare-in-the-bad-way hardware! GUUUUGH!

Okay, is there a possibility of stuffing one of you guys' suggested new mobos into this case, or is there a possibility this case has proprietary fittings too?

No one could have guessed 939 would have been killed so early, ugh. AMD lost me as a customer the moment they announced no sane upgrade path.

I must admit, I'm happy to have bought a 754 AGP board when I did. No upgradeability, but damn was it cheap.

I actually soldiered on with a 233 MHz P2 for over two months when my almost equally ancient rig died last year so I could get a Core 2 Duo when it came out. Not an experience I'd care to repeat, so I feel for you guys.