Best cpu for my motherboard

[bris]

I just bought a new connect3d X1950XT 256mb graphics card for my system but my 3dmark 2006 score is realy low at 4331. Now I know my P4 3.2 ghz cpu is bottlenecking it quit a bit so I was wondering if anyone can tell me the best cpu for a Abit fatality AA8XE lga775 925xe chipset motherboard. I am hoping a core2 duo will fit but will it? If it does is this still a good board, it was when I bought it but is it still up to the job. I have in it just now 1gig of corsair xms2 5400 667 ram but have another 1gig on the way to make it 2 gig so is this ram still ok? I am a bit dissapointed in the 1950xt as I expected a big difference over my old X800XL but because of the processor I am not really getting the benefits of this card. When I rann 3dmark 06 with antiallsing on 6x the comp ran at a crawl and i only got 1600 on the score, but this is why I bought the card in the first place.
Thanks

 

[Quixote]

I'm afraid not. It won't even take a pentium D (Dual Core) - you need P945 & above for thoses.
For Core 2 Duo, you'll need a new motherboard. However, if you're not overclocking (or not much) , you can get them pretty cheap.

 

[snowdog]

sry to say but the best cpu for your mainboard will be a 90nm prescott 3.8ghz with 2 mb cache (p4 670) and em64t...

 

[Quixote]

I don't think your Pentium 3.2GHZ should bottleneck the X1950 Pro too badly.

I'm running an X1800XT on a Pentium D805 at stock speed, so for single-core games (Still most of them), it's a Pentium 2.66GHZ. The 1800XT made for a big boost from my 6600GT.

Have you tried running games with high settings yet ? 3D mark is only a bench mark after all - it's real world performance that counts.
Remember that 3D mark 2006 takes into account Dual - Core CPU's, so not having one will give you a worse score but may not make much difference to performance in most games.

If you find your X1950 Pro is definately under-performing, I would look to possible driver issues before the CPU.