Adventures of the 939 build

[Toothless]

Last update from me for the 939.

It's dead. I removed the burnt part as suggested and still the power flickers. Today I take it to the shop for recycling and maybe later on someone will use a board that has a little bit of the love that this had.

RIP ABN37-SLI.

 

[delshay]

MOTHERBOARD CAPACITORS UPDATE:

I've made a decision to go all out Tantalum. I will force remove the two ceramic sitting behind the CPU. Test here shows the processor prefers the smaller value capacitors than the latest 820uf from Panasonic. The sheer stability in the mild overclock has push me in this direction.

Here are the numbers

CPU CORE CAPACITORS ORIGNAL 21:

Now there are 45+ & counting. There's so many tiny capacitors I keep losing track how many there are, but it's more than 45. There should be around 70+ when completed

MEMORY RING CAPACITORS ORIGNAL 10:

Now there are 14 capacitors but should end up with 25+ when completed.

There's a lot of trickery going on here to get so many capacitors on the PCB behind the CPU without stacking. This is a first & will never be repeated.

Last update from me for the 939.

It's dead. I removed the burnt part as suggested and still the power flickers. Today I take it to the shop for recycling and maybe later on someone will use a board that has a little bit of the love that this had.

RIP ABN37-SLI.

What memory modules do you have.

 

[Toothless]

What memory modules do you have.

They were some silver colored 1GB sticks. Corsair I believe.

 

[delshay]

They were some silver colored 1GB sticks. Corsair I believe.

Can you please check & confirm make & part number & how many you have.

 

[Toothless]

Can you please check & confirm make & part number & how many you have.

They're already gone and they were listed in the very first post in this thread.

So a roomie of mine has given up a socket 939 build since he's getting his X58 rig going. (Being built by me, I'll post pics if you guys want later)

It's a Asus A8N32-SLI, no clue on the CPU yet, 4x1GB Corsair CMX1024-3200C2PT sticks 400mhz CL2 sticks. Stock cooler, wee bit of dust on it, nothing too bad. The question is there anything I should be concerned with on building this thing up? Just go for it or tweaks I should know about? I'll add pics later on when I'm not going to run on 5 hours of sleep.

 

[delshay]

MOTHERBOARD CAPACITORS UPDATE:

After filling the complete back of the motherboard CPU area i have ran into many problems. I have fixed some problems but there is a lot of work to do to clear overclocking errors. This motherboard will no longer accept bad CPUs. It seems to detect something internally that is wrong with the CPU. Very good CPUs have no problems. The list is long what problems i am having, but i will fix them. At lease i can now claim this to be the worlds first motherboard to have all Tantalum capacitors behind the CPU. I will post further updates when i have sorted out the problems.

EDIT: There are around 70 - 80 capacitors sitting behind the CPU. I know there are around 25 that are memory ring power & the rest are CPU core.

GAMES: Below is a screenshot of Troy. It's a non Vulkan game but it works on the 939 platform.

Screenshot 1080P Ultra Settings

 

[delshay]

MOTHERBOARD CAPACITORS UPDATE:

I have some new Tantalum capacitors. They will be installed after this posting. This is mainly repairs behind the CPU core as they are around four that is not working, but I will be adding 0805 Tantalum's to other parts of the motherboard. (This part is new).

PERFORMANCE:

I have seen hints of what the processor can do & I can confirm, it's going to overclock faster than before with lower voltage as soon as I clear more hardware faults. So I'm very confident I can set a new world record on air for an FX-60.

Windows 7 is a little corrupted & can't be repaired in "safe mode" or with the "DVD", but I'm holding back clean install until more faults are cleared. This computer is also moving to dual boot Windows 8.0. This is mainly to find out why some games do not start on Windows 7.

5.25 INCH FRONT BAY DISPLAY:

For the first time I'm able to display vital information about the computer. This is important as the CPU is run intentionally at high temperatures 52c - 54c for error tracking. The screenshot below is a few days old & has changed to show more vital information on the display at start-up. There is no intervention by me, all is done when windows start's-up.

This has made all other third party software a little redundant as I have all information I need on one screen.

One of the strangest thing you can see in the screenshot, is you can see "DIMM4" has a thermal sensor. This is one of the biggest secret's to this project & is "100% EXCLUSIVE TO TPU". These are the only DDR1 memory modules in the world to have this feature. You can see three spaces are reserved on the display for DIMM1-3 thermal reading which are not activated just yet.

Most software already out there will detect thermal readings for these DDR1 Memory Modules.


GAMING:

We have Baldur's Gate 3 working on the vulkan API & is playable on the 939 platform. (1080P Max Settings).

To give you an idea which modern games that may work on the 939 Platform, monitor & track Phenom CPUS on YOUTUBE. It's not guaranteed, but it's most likely to work.

NOTE: GPU & CPU are underclocked when screenshot was taken. Overclocking speed is not important at this time.