Monday, September 28th 2009
ASRock Innovates Socket 939 Motherboard with AMD 785G Chipset
This creation by ASRock is bound to surprise you. The motherboard specialist used a present-generation AMD 785G + SB710 chipset to drive a socket 939 motherboard, called the ASRock 939A785GMH128M. That's right, socket 939, supporting some of the oldest processors in the Athlon 64 and Sempron 64 series. The socket 939 CPU is powered by a 5-phase power circuit. It is wired to four DDR memory slots, supporting dual-channel DDR memory at speeds of up to DDR-400 MHz.
The AMD 785G chipset packs an ATI Radeon HD 4200 class integrated graphics processor with 128 MB SidePort memory, while the SB710 southbridge provides 5 internal SATA 3 Gb/s ports, and one eSATA port. The expansion slots on this micro-ATX motherboard include one PCI-Express 2.0 x16, one PCI-E x1, and two PCI slots. The IGP connects to its displays using DVI-D, HDMI, and D-Sub. 8-channel audio, and gigabit Ethernet make for the rest of it. There is no word on the availability or pricing as yet.
Source:
OCWorkbench
The AMD 785G chipset packs an ATI Radeon HD 4200 class integrated graphics processor with 128 MB SidePort memory, while the SB710 southbridge provides 5 internal SATA 3 Gb/s ports, and one eSATA port. The expansion slots on this micro-ATX motherboard include one PCI-Express 2.0 x16, one PCI-E x1, and two PCI slots. The IGP connects to its displays using DVI-D, HDMI, and D-Sub. 8-channel audio, and gigabit Ethernet make for the rest of it. There is no word on the availability or pricing as yet.
64 Comments on ASRock Innovates Socket 939 Motherboard with AMD 785G Chipset
Great idea ! :toast:
No need for a dicrete graphics card so i can make this silent with low heat output, and stick in a few TB of HDD space to backup my main rig :D
i'm sure a million small businesses started crying tears of joy, but otherwise... no deal.
DDR1 ram is so expensive, finding 1-2GB of ram for that alone would make it cost more than a DDR2 variant of the board and ram combined.
ASRock has always tried to fill small niches with some of their products. They have many boards mixing both old and new parts to try to help a builder be able to recycle parts, but also move forward somewhat.
- Robert (PmR)DeathInJune
just wonder if this board can be used in crossfire x...
(which means only with a select few, entry level cards)
Time to digg out my trusty s939 4400+
This is awesome!!!!!
this is a great idea, Kudos to ASROCK.
I still got 3 939 procs lying around & with THIS i can get the running again & with PCI-E graphics too!!!
boy Im gonna have a field day getting my 3000+ & Fx55 back up & running. not to mention being about to give my working X2 3800+ (@2.66Ghz) rig a facelift.
but despite all that, Im guessing the 939 cpus will serverely bottleneck higher end PCI-E graphics cards
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On that note - its a shame DDR400 (PC3200) is so expensive now..... its around £60-80 here in the UK for a 2x1Gb Corsair/OCZ value ram kits.... *sigh*
My 2x2Gb DDR2 1600's didnt even cost me £40......
(I use to own a set of Elixer value ram that clocked to 480Mhz on 3-3-3-8 for around £20 a 1Gb stick)
ok, enough chatter - when's it available in the UK and from where?