Back to the Past: ASRock Launches Brand New S939 AMD Motherboard

jmke · 4th December 2009, 13:03

ASRock has just launched a brand new 939 board based on AMD's 785G chipset.

The board features 4 DDR slots, 1 PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1, 2x PCI slots, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 audio, 6 USBs, 5 SATA II connectors and even serial and parallel ports, to go with the retro theme. Thanks to ATI's HD 4200 graphics with 128MB of SidePort memory, the ASRock 939A785GMH/128M features HDMI, DVI and VGA connectors.

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16703/37/

jmke · 4th December 2009, 13:04

Quote:

Even an old K8 coupled with HD 4200 graphics could make for a quite nice HTPC and beat any Atom senseless, especially if you factor in the rather affordable price.

K8 setup would be 80-120W idle, more under load
Atom setup would be 20w idle, 24W under load

yes... senseless

4th December 2009, 18:06

Well, I'm still using a socket 939 dual core and highly overclocked (2.94Ghz).So my watts are probably outrageous.

But think of it this way.If they still release agp cards and sell almost no agp motherboards (only 1 from asrock) as far as I know.This board might make sense in a way.

piotke · 6th December 2009, 11:24

Well, you're thinking incorrectly.

The AGP cards released are to help those few that still have an AGP based board. Not to install in a new system.

6th December 2009, 11:40

ASRock is also one of the few brands that still manufacture socket478 mobo's (AGP or PCIe; the former is a P4i65GV), maybe that's also another reason why they still have AGP GPUs...

4th December 2009, 13:03	#1
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,019	Back to the Past: ASRock Launches Brand New S939 AMD Motherboard ASRock has just launched a brand new 939 board based on AMD's 785G chipset. The board features 4 DDR slots, 1 PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1, 2x PCI slots, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 audio, 6 USBs, 5 SATA II connectors and even serial and parallel ports, to go with the retro theme. Thanks to ATI's HD 4200 graphics with 128MB of SidePort memory, the ASRock 939A785GMH/128M features HDMI, DVI and VGA connectors. http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16703/37/ __________________

6th December 2009, 11:24	#4
piotke [M] Reviewer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 5,003	Well, you're thinking incorrectly. The AGP cards released are to help those few that still have an AGP based board. Not to install in a new system. __________________ .

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4th December 2009, 18:06	#3
natr0n Posts: n/a	Well, I'm still using a socket 939 dual core and highly overclocked (2.94Ghz).So my watts are probably outrageous. But think of it this way.If they still release agp cards and sell almost no agp motherboards (only 1 from asrock) as far as I know.This board might make sense in a way.

6th December 2009, 11:40	#5
JimmyJump Posts: n/a	ASRock is also one of the few brands that still manufacture socket478 mobo's (AGP or PCIe; the former is a P4i65GV), maybe that's also another reason why they still have AGP GPUs...