On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:45:20 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:39:37 -0400,
wrote:

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

What are you trying to accomplish by replacing the motherboard? Will
re-using the existing processor accomplish that?
Does your old computer use UEFI bios? If not, forget it. You will need
to totally reinstall EVERYTHING on the hard drive to use the ASUS
boards.If it does, you will have to do it for the others.
Personally I won't touch an AMD processor unless I get it for free. I
have an AMD laptop - I got it for free and spent $6 to fix it.
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Been very pleased with my AMD dual core laptop and desk top.

It appears many of the high performance gaming machines are
now being built around overclocked 8 core AMD chips.

Some examples:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...64588&CatId=31

video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsyxM_j3Y4U

FYI source for MSI motherboard [several others on this site]
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...472&CatId=7244
They are definitely FAST. The problem I have run into is they are
sometimes incompatible with some programs and hardware - and they have
a bad habit of not lasting too long. I've had a lot od experience in
the past with motherboards turning to "toast" inder the chip -
particularly when overclocked. I just can't be bothered with them any
more - as I don't do gamer machines, and my clients generally expect
the computer to keep on ticking for 7 or more years.