
April 13th, 2009, 07:06 AM
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Vid card geek
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Austin Texas
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unfortunately thats not quite enough information, as all of the motherboards above utilize the same VIA K8T800 chipset. What you need to do is identify specifically what motherboard you have, either by loading up software such as CPU-Z, Sandra (from SiSoftware), or by opening up your PC and seeing what the motherboard is labeled as.
If it is a socket 754 variant, you are pretty much out of luck as even if you could find some for sale...you dont stand to gain a whole lot of ground in upgrading on that socket. If it is socket 939, you will have the option of picking up some decent dual core processors, but even then these chips will not compare to what you can get for modern sockets. Given the fact that Socket AM2 dual cores can be found in online retailers (such as newegg.com) for under $40, and some really good dual cores can be found in the $50 range, its really not worth dropping a whole lot of money into an out dated platform.
But once you figure out what motherboard you have, you can refer to the MSI CPU compatibility charts which will tell you what processors are supported by your motherboard, and what board or bios revision is required for that support. And from there you can figure out what cpus you can buy, and determine if its really worth it to bother.
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