Confused over sockets

Slinky

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My CPU has just gone kapput so had a look at replacing but seems socket AM2+ is way out of date. Mobo was this http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M4N72E/#overview

Want to stick with AMD and I dont want a gpu on chip but not sure what socket i need. Looking to spend about 200 quid but will need cpu mobo and ram. If anyone can recommend anything I would be grateful.

Thanks
Aaron.
 
Hi Aaron

Does look like you should upgrade your motherboard.
Something like this should be fine.

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £67.99
Total : £238.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).



I know its slightly over budget but if you are not going to overclock the CPU and only have 1 graphics card you should look at somthing like this:
YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £67.99
1 x Asus M5A97 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
Total : £229.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).


Or:

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x TeamGroup Xtreem LV 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-21300C11 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit (TXD38G2666HC11CDC01) £67.99
1 x Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £55.99
Total : £219.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Hope this helps
 
yeah, probably not gonna overclock and have an AMD gfx but cant remember which. Got a scythe infinity cooler, should that still fit as far as you know?
 
Cooler will fit fine. Any AMD cooler from recent times will fit AMD boards right back to at least socket 754 as the retention bracket is just about the same.
 
Excellent. I knew I came to the right place.
Do you think I will be able to get away without doing a clean install of OS (Win7 64bit) or is that unlikely?
 
Just tried to check out with Paypal and it doesnt include the delivery cost, yet it is shown in the basket of the website, is this normal?
Think will order tomorrow on next day so it arrives Thursday.
 
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So long as DDR3 is no taller than DDR2 should be ok, there is lots of clearance currently. Will double check though when hairy draught excluder moves out of the way.
 
Slinky said:
So long as DDR3 is no taller than DDR2 should be ok, there is lots of clearance currently. Will double check though when hairy draught excluder moves out of the way.
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Ha ha - dog I assume :D

The TeamGroup linked above has tall heat spreader on but the stuff in my link is standard height :)
 
Opted for
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-6 Six Core 6300 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £85.99
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit
Thought it best playing safe with the ram, didn't want it too close to the heat sink.
Hopefully will arrive tomorrow :)
 
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