will my motherboard support this cpu?

[dr4g0nf1y]

This is an old computer which is about four years old. This was my gaming pc which served me for 3 years without a problem until I got my E8500 set up.

This then was moved back to a reserve/backup pc and came into action in the 2/3 of june when I had a cpu failure. Needed to play games and I originally upgraded to the E8500 due to problems with cod: mw where something blew my screen and overloaded the caps lol

Anyway I then bought the 955 and is now my main Gaming and this E8500 which has been working for a month is my reserve/backup gaming/work pc.

Thus computer I speak of is no longer needed. I was going to play about with linux on it but I may just by other parts for that lol.

This will get win7 home and be given to my mother as her 10 year old Athlon XP 1900+ is a bit slow now, that's a single core running at 2GHz

I don't know all the specs but this PC is

AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (newcastle?)
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
Gigabyte 6600Gt 128mb
1024mb RAM
160gb maxtor SATA 150
some random cheap X-power 480w PS

will this...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-177-AM&groupid=701&catid=6&subcat=803

go in this.....

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=1859#anchor_os

or should I say work?

plus anything worthy of upgrading?

 

[ChileanLlama]

No - the CPU is socket AM2 and the motherboard is Socket 939.

There's no new 939 CPUs listed here - you might get lucky elsewhere, otherwise maybe second hand.

 

[dr4g0nf1y]

nuts

completely over looked that

I've only seen a 3000+ cpu, I got excited when I saw I could get a dual core

 

[ChileanLlama]

You can get a dual core x2 on 939, think 3800x2 to 4800x2 but I'm 99% certain it will have to be a second hand one.

 

[Phatzy]

For the price of a decent x2 for the 939 format these days, you mite as well just get a cheap AM2 setup or intel.

 

[dr4g0nf1y]

I might get another stick of ram for it and play about with the bios again.

Not really a better gpu that nicely priced

 

[DavyBoy]

Those X2 939 chips fetch quite a bit these days 2nd hand, really annoys me, as I gave a few of those chips away towards the end of last year to friends..

Like Phatzy said, you would be just as well as purchasing a cheap AM2 system instead of trying to source a 939 dual core.

::edit::

I used to have that K8 NXP SLi mobo, I got it as a bundle with the Gigabyte 3D1 dual GPU card, it had 2 x 6600GT cores on the same PCB running in SLi, it was a really good setup back in the day!!

I used to get my 939 4200X2 running at 2.9GHz on that mobo, it used to fly!!!