On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > A friend has a 3 year old emachines system AMD Athlon 3700+ socket > 939, and apparently, as is common, the motherboard has died (power > supply, strangely enough for an emachines, is OK). > > Anyone want to sell off a motherboard (I think it's uATX) with cpu, or > without that has the socket 939, inexpensively, that I can swap in to > get 'em running again? > > Or a cheap place to pick up such a beast? Needs to support an IDE > hard drive and DVD, even though the old mbd had SATA ports, they were > unused. > > Oh, and with built in video of some sort. > > Anyway, I just thought I'd ask, as it's not worth putting even a > couple hundred in for mbd/cpu/video combo and new ram from Frys into > this 3 year old system. >
I ran into a similar problem with a computer at the office, it was an HP Pavilion. It boiled down to either spend ~$70 on evilBay for a used mobo or purchase new mobo+ram+cpu, which is what we ended up doing. Now the computer has a C2D E8400, 4GB RAM, and a nice mobo for only $340. Even the power supply could be reused. Besides, there's the new components warranties, etc etc. A much better option down the road. On another note, I was actually amazed how hard it is to find a 939 mobo these days.... -- Dante -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
