You might also consider an 865g motherboard which would support his ram and still provide onboard video + e6300, though that's still a bit spendy.
A better bet may be a 939 nforce6150 board + 3800+, which together would be cheap and a decent performer with way better onboard video then that via board CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -----Original Message----- From: Harry McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:20:19 To:The Hardware List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend Hi, This board is Socket 754, and can't do Dual Core (maybe a mobile dual core, but I doubt the bios would like it). You can either go S939 or AM2, 939 he can keep his 1GB of current memory, AM2 he would need new memory. Does he currently have a video card, or is he using the onboard video. Would he want a "second" system, or reuse as many parts as possible. Here is what I would go with for the reuse as much as possible: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570 (motherboard) Any S939 X2 you want, NewEgg is short on them (moving to AM2), but this might work for you: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103545 This would keep the current memory, and only replace the board and chip. If you want board/chip/ram, it will add $150-300 to the cost (1GB or 2GB memory), everything else being equal. Harry Veech wrote: > A friend of mine has a Sempron 2800 on a Gigabyte K8 Triton > GA-K8VM800M with 2 x 512MB sticks of generic RAM. > > He is looking to upgrade, and would like dual processor muscle. Can > this mobo support dual-proc? If not, what CPU/Board/RAM config would > give great bang for the buck for a dual processing upgrade? > > thanks, > > Veech > > >
