On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:09:01 -0500, Karl Townsend
wrote:

I'm looking for a new motherboard and haven't really kept up with
computer technology for several years now.

If I can re-use the CPU, I will save the cost of this part PLUS greedy
greedy M$oft won't make me pay for ANOTHER win 7 OS disk. I don't want
to reuse it if I'm being penny wise and pound foolish. Belarc says its
a 3.60 gigahertz AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core. The current MB manual says its
an AM3+ socket.

OK, I'm looking for a file storage and internet surfer machine, don't
need blazing speed, or a lot of memory. So I went to Newegg for MBs,
selected AM3+ socket, FX type processor, and started looking for ones
with lots of SATA and other slots. I came up with these tentative
results: http://tinyurl.com/nofnueh I made some selections to narrow
the field that aren't really needed.

Any suggestions? Am I on the right track to re use this CPU? If we're
good to go with one of these, I'll want to double check if the memory
I have is compatible, Belarc says I got 2 each 4 meg sticks. The
existing MB manual says DDR3. Not sure how to double check the memory
speed.

Karl


Your AMD FX-4100 CPU was released in 2011 and was at that time the low
end of the AMD-41xx series. On the other hand with the exception of
the L2 cache memory (4 mbyte) its performance figures are very similar
to my Intel core5-4670 (L2 cache - 6 mb) so performance for web
surfing and data handling will likely be satisfactory.

You say that your new MB will require DDR3. Your current memory chips
should have a number on them for identification.

Amazon sells 8 gig, DDR3 1333 mhz for about $70 a set and 4 gig sets
of 4 gig 1600 mhz for about $75/set. You will need two chips (1 set)
as the board likely has dual channel memory.

The page you reference shows several MB's, the first of which seems to
be a dial CPU board, but the others all have 4 SATA connections.
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Cheers,

John B.
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