Black Ice Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Hello folks, I've got an Asus A8N-SLI Premium mobo thats been sat in its box for nearly 2 years (bought it cheap from a work mate who only used it for a few months, so its pritty much good as new, and a shame to waste it), the board Rev says 1.02 so i was wondering if anyone knows exactly what AMD chips I can use with this mobo+Rev 1.02, I really dont want to flash this BIOS if I can avoid it Advice on some good RAM would be helpfull as well, do I need EEC or Non EEC, I seem to remember these AMD mobos used a differant memory to the Intel 478's, or am I getting mixed up ? ps - Can we start a Retro Section just for Intel 478 and AMD 939, yes were insane for hanging on to this old tech stuff, but hell its good fun, and a bit like owning an old classic car or motorbike, lol Regards, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Retro? C'mon that stuff isn't retro its just past its prime... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Compxpert Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Hardly retro. My K6-2 is way more retro. Now if only I had a 386 machine lying around then I could truly be retro. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardnrg Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 first result on google is the Asus product page... http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&...amp;modelmenu=1 939 non-ECC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cchalogamer Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 One big thing, just flash the BIOS, you'll be better off in the end and I've had it's little brother here (the deluxe) and flashing it made on hell of a stability difference with all but the old 939 hardware. (from 250 to 300+ htt with my 3000+ venice) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waco Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 Any socket 939 CPU and and non-ECC standard DDR. Even the stock BIOS supports Opterons of all flavors and any of the single/dual core Athlon64s. I literally just upgraded from mine this week. I wouldn't call 3 year old hardware "retro" though. Retro is old AT stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rehit Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 i still have my FX-60 box sitting behind me... with dual 7900GTX cards it will play Crysis at decent framerates. the kids love gaming on it. my Asus A8N-SLI Rig. A8N-SLI Premium ENERMAX Liberty 620W FX-60 @2.8 24/7 Freezer 64 Pro OCZ PLATINUM XTC 4096-4400 74GB Raptor (2)150GB Raptors Raid0 (2)Seagate 320GB Raid0 (2)EVGA 512-P2-N570-AX Geforce 7900GTX SLI Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Razer Copperhead Razer Barracuda Headphones XP ProX64 Philips 32" LCD HDTV my "retro" rig is still running movies on my TV in the den... Thermaltake Highest Xaser III Super Tower Case ASUS PC 800E Deluxe MB P4 3.2 Extreme CPU 4096 Corsair Black XMS ProSeries Ram Thermaltake 680 Watt PS W0049 RUD (2) 120 Gig SCSI Raid0 Arrays 595 Gig SCSI Raid0 Plextor PX-716A/Lite-On LTR-52327S Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 Creative Megaworks 650 THX ASUS V9999 Ultra Deluxe 6800 Ultra Philips 200P3 20" LCD Monitor Win XP-Pro SP1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Ice Posted June 27, 2008 Posted June 27, 2008 Thx for all the reply's Ok I have just bought an AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego s939, 2.4GHz, 1MB L2 Cache for Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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