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Originally Posted by moocow Seriously, just remove the CPU again to check the part number. Some board may be AM2 or AM2+ but they may have an upper limit as to what CPU they can support. While it seem that the board MARSTG suggested will work, refer to the CPU list below and check it against the CPU. Thermal paste is not that expensive. IMO, I wouldn't bother with it. The suggested board only support a max of 8GB of DDR2 RAM (2x4GB) and cost as much as a Haswell i5 new. Spending the money on an AMD APU base system would be much smarter way to upgrade. Unless you have another board to test the CPU, you can't be sure it's still working. If you go out of a limb and get that replacement board from Newegg and it doesn't work, you just spend $60 for nothing and I bet $5 that you will have a difficult time unload it here. ASRock > A785GM-LE |
yeah not sure if cpu still working as fried board can toast it too right?
does newegg take returns if the board turns out not compatible and cpu fried? do they full refund?
haswell i5..... wouldnt i be spending more on the compatible board for it? i dont want to spend alot. i just want a new board and current components to go on it.
i have good component on the fried board.... corsair dhx 6400 2x 1gb, 8800 gts 512mb and antec earthwatts 380 watts. at the time of fried board, luckly the graphic card wasnt installed on it.
athlon x2 is fast enough as my opinion. and just to note the fried board maxmum capacity is 4gb of ram. i want to get 6gb ram or 8gb ram or even 16gb as room for upgrade even further.
and yeah i think it is am2+ and not am2. does the am2+ support higher athlon x2 than the normal am2?
upgrading cpu is just extra though.
what? thermal paste.... i already put new thermal paste on it when i was trying to figure out whats wrong with the computer. thought it was cpu broken but turns out fried board. im not buying thermal paste as i already replace thermal paste to the cpu.