Upgrade advice please

[electricmuso]

Hi guys,

I built my computer about 5/6 years ago and haven't really needed to upgrade it since but I've hit the limit in terms of games being playable so I think I'm gonna have to upgrade most of my components. Basically I just bought Total War Atilla and it's not happy! At the moment I have:

Motherboard: Asus M3A32-MVP Delux
Processor: AMD Phenom 9950 Quad Core 2.6Ghz
RAM: 8GB
Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2

I think the RAM should be OK, I just need to upgrade to 64-bit Windows so I can use all of it!

Basically I don't want a new motherboard if I can help it, so I was just thinkinking a new processor and graphics card.

So my questions are:

Will 64 bit Windows 7 work with that motherboard?

What would be a good new processor to get which would work with my motherboard?

It looks like theres another graphics card slot on the motherboard (the current graphics card is in a blue slot and there's another one of those) so should I get another graphics card to have two (my current one had crossfire, which I think meant you can have two of them working together no?) or just have one new one?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

 

[stulid]

Hi,

Your RAM is DDR2 and this is just not used anymore on modern boards.

The CPU support list for your board is here - http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/M3A32MVP_DeluxeWiFiAP/HelpDesk_CPU/ - as you can see they are all old CPUs so you will have to change the board to support a newer more powerful CPU.

I think its time tom make some major changes to your system and start from scratch unless you dont have the budget for a complete overhaul?

Will 64 bit Windows 7 work with that motherboard?

Yes it will.

It looks like theres another graphics card slot on the motherboard (the current graphics card is in a blue slot and there's another one of those) so should I get another graphics card to have two (my current one had crossfire, which I think meant you can have two of them working together no?) or just have one new one?

Dpeends if you can find a suitable card that can be crossfired with it.

What PSU do you have, what case, drives (SATA or IDE) etc do you have?