How To Know Compatibility of CPU??

[TheEliteReaper]

my missus has a ideq N1 with a biostar board and a mobile sempron 3300+, its a socket 754 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 410 and it has support for an Athlon, but not sure which one, so was wondering if i got say a dual core and it turned out not to be supported then what would it say? or wouldnt it load at all?


i am going to be doing a much better build for her, but not for awhile and so in the mean time want to do what i can to hers, only thing i know that i can do now other than extra ram and HDD is the CPU(dont think beyond 8500GT is supported).

 

[Martini1991]

Just check the motherboards page on its manufacturers website for CPU compatibility.

 

[TheEliteReaper]

it says sempron and athlon 64 CPU, but further search on the biostar website, the boards they list dont seem to quite resemble the description..

this is the description

http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/sffpc/content.php?S_ID=21

i know sempron is like Atom, so the Athlon be much better, but even used prices i wouldnt want to get a dual core to find out its not supported, but then i wouldnt want a single core really if a dual is supported lol..

 

[marms]

There aren't any Socket 754 dual core processors, the extra pins of socket 939 were needed to support dual core processors.

 

[TheEliteReaper]

aha okay then thanks for that, good to know, last thing i want to do is spend so much or even so little on something that be wasted ..