On Thursday, June 19, 2014 3:44:56 PM UTC-4, mike wrote:
On 6/19/2014 6:09 AM, 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





You've been less than forthcoming about why you want a new motherboard.

The one you have is way better than you need for what you say you want

to do.

Is it broke?

How broke?



I get all my computers at garage sales.

Most of the "broken" ones were fixed by blowing the dust out of the

cpu heat sink. The rest required changing a couple of caps.



If you like to tinker or are cheap, it's worth at least making an attempt

to fix it.



If you're made of money or just want a new machine, go buy a machine.



Everything in the middle is a crap shoot. Mixing stuff is fraught with

issues.

I bought a CPU to upgrade a motherboard. Turns out that the cpu is

fully compatible with the hardware, but the bios cpu table was never

upgraded

to recognize it...and never will be.

Unless the motherboard specifically calls out compatibility with the

EXACT processor you have, you're in for a bumpy ride.

Yeah, Coombs (5th post from the top) apparently thinks that all that is bull****, though. How do you maintain the motherboard's intended magnetic fields/temperatures?

But yeah, if you like to aimlessly tinker, then reuse processors or even something like cutting up printed circuits.