Well if there was ever a company trying to keep dead technology alive, it would be ASRock. Sources at OCWorkbench claim that ASRock is looking to keep the heart of Socket 939 – replaced by AM2 in 2006 – still beating with a new motherboard based on the 785G chipset.

The 939A785GMH128M retains some of the features of the 785G chipset, such as integrated DX10 Radeon 4200 video and PCIe x16 2.0 with Hybrid Crossfire support, but supports only DDR memory. It also has the latest media outputs including HDMI and Optical Audio out.

Obviously the company is aiming to encourage consumers to recycle old hardware into a perfectly capable home theatre system, but with the explosion of incredbly cheap AMD dual core CPU’s and sub $100 Quad Cores, it does seem a little strange.

ASRock 939A785GMH128M Specifications

• Socket 939 for AMD Athlon™ 64FX / 64X2 / 64 processors

• Solid Capacitor for CPU power

• AMD 785G + SB710 Chipsets

• Supports Dual Channel DDR 400/333/266 with 4 DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 4GB

• Integrated AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics, DX10.1 class iGPU, Shader Model 4.1, Max. shared memory 512MB

• Integrated 128MB side port memory for iGPU

• Supports ATI™ Hybrid CrossFireX™

• 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (green @ x16 mode)

• Three VGA Output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI

• Supports HDCP function with DVI-D port

• Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback with DVI-D port

• 5 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and “Hot Plug” functions

• 1 x eSATAII Port

• PCIE x1 Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s

• ASRock Smart BIOS, OC DNA, OC Tuner, IES, Instant Boot, Instant Flash

• EuP Ready

• 7.1 CH Windows^® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (ALC888 Audio Codec)

• Windows^® Vista™ Premium 2008 Logo Ready

• I/O Panel : 1 x VGA/DVI-D Port, 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port, 1 x HDMI Port, 1 x Optical SPDIF Out Port, 4 x Ready-to-Use USB 2.0 Ports, 1 x eSATAII Port, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED

Source: OCWorkBench