upgrade path to phenom

pENdr4gON

pENdr4gON

pENdr4gON

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Hi guys, this is my first post on the forum, I'm here because I have a few questions...

Here is some back ground.
We all have our favorites, I have been an AMD man since K5. I have always had to build on a budget. AMD has for most of the last 10 years, given you more "bang for your buck" To keep costs down I keep my PC about one year behind the bleeding edge. I know I like nVidia chipset, on an ASUS board.

Unfortunately due to cash flow problems my PC has slipped beyond my own 1 year rule. (More like 2-3 years!:eek:) In the next month or so I'm going to be getting new MoBo CPU and RAM.

Given that the current bleeding edge is the new quad core Phenom I have an eye on it in around a year. For that to happen I need to lay the ground work now, with the right Motherboard...

So here is the question.

Do all AM2 boards support the Phenom?

This bundle looks interesting
 
I was thinking fo doing much the same but keeping true to my AMD roots.

Duel core AMD, a nice ASUS nVidia board. and some quick'ish ram. What I would like to know is can you drop Phenom into just any-old AM2 board?

What I'm trying to avoid is 12months from now looking longingly at, (by then cheap) Phenom chips only to discover that it won't go in the motherboard! and if only I had chosen the right board now I could save my self the heart ache.

My budget is tight, I mean real tight! I'm looking at spending around £50'sh quid on each, CPU, MoBo, Ram. I can save on the CPU cos FSB and always be tweaked and any duel core would be an improvement over the Sempron 3400 I'm currently running.
 
OK OK I'll look at Intel LOL :D

A bit of me will die if I do but here gose...

Here is my current spec, there is a * next to the bit's I don't intend to change at first.

AMD Sempron 3400 64bit (OC 14%)
ASUS K8N4-E SE (Socket 754)
RAM 2Gb 400MHz (No name) (OC 13%)
PCi-E nVidia 7900GT OC from BFG * (OC 12% over the BFG OC)
2X 250Gb SATA II Stripping, 1X160Gb IDE for back up *
PSU 600W (No Name) *
NEXUS ISTYLE Case *
SoundBlaster Audigi2 SL *
17' LCD (No Name) *

This rig currently plays BF:2 with all the eye candy maxed at around 70fps. put up against some of the new games, well the Cyrsis demo is a very nice looking slide show !?!

Looking at the "Basket" you selected I could take the CPU, MoBo, Ram and HeatSink all for around £175.
 
I know that you are right, I have my doubts about my current PSU. Maybe to overclocking will have to wait until the PSU come along...

To understand my upgrading/cash issues. It's impossible to save! no I mean it... On pay day I can just about squeeze around £30, but that is each month. Problem is that I have pushed my current setup as far as I can. I could put in a mobile CPU to get a little extra but that is pointless. To upgrade now means CPU, MoBo and Ram, expensive!

Crimbo is coming, Santa will be bringing cash! Fingers crossed looking at the previous posts £175 quid!?!?
 
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