Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: ThanksForHelp on June 11, 2008, 01:52:43 PM
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I was wondering if anybody knows how to find what motherboard your using. I'm trying to figure out if I can use a quad core amd processor without having to upgrade motherboards. I ran a belarc advisor scan thing and it says my board is:NF-MCP61. I tried a google search and a tigerdirect search but couldnt really find anything on it. was wondering if anybody could tell me a different way to find out what motherboard I'm using or if it'll be able to use the socket am2+. I'm using a dual core one right now so it's only socket am2.
I opened my computer and all I saw was geforce 6100sm-mv and it's an egs motherboard.
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download and run SIW from www.gtopala.com. It will tell you just about everything you need to know about your system, Also, what CPU are you using now?
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Right now I'm using an amd athlon 64 x2 5200+. My old one was an amd athlon x2 6000+ but it got taken out by a power supply.
EDIT: I tried to run the diagnostic thing but vista isn't letting me. I tried turning off my firewall and I have administrator rights but it's not working.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2
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ok so it will work but use the hypertransport 2.0 instead of 3.0. Does this make a significant difference if I were to be using this cpu, I guess what I'm trying to ask is would it be worth it to buy a quadcore processor if I'm only using hypertransport2.0? The processor I was looking into is the AMD Phenom Quad Core 9600 2.3 GHZ AM2+ Black Ed CPU