[ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice

[LeeGroups]

Ian,

I doubt you'll be able to buy a new motherboard for an 8 year old CPU, 
your only option would be Ebay. That said there are very few twin socket 
motherboards around, so that will narrow your choice quite severely.

On top of that, how do you know it's the motherboard? Odd behavior could 
come from the CPU or RAM too...

All things being equal, you would be better off buying a bundle kit, 
from Ebuyer/Scan/Maplin/Aria which has a matching 
motherboard/CPU/RAM/HSF and be done with it. You may also need a new PSU 
(£10?) or at least an adapter cable, but starting from £99 it'll save a 
whole lot of time and hassle....

Lee


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Somewhat OT, but I'm hoping someone here can help.
>
> My Desktop MB is on the way out, intermittent strange behaviour, and it
> being some 8 years old and well used, I'm not really that surprised.
>
> Now, as I hate wasting money I thought I'd get myself a new MB that would
> handle the current CPU, AND 1.6 GHz, and memory, but thought about going for
> a dual socket CPU board instead, and buy another CPU to boost performance.
>
> I realise that the make and clock speed of the CPU has to be the same, but
> does it have to be from the same family of CPU's?  The PSU, at 350w, should
> be more than capable as the only other large power draw, the graphics
> system, is, by today's standards, fairly medioca, but it suits.
>
> I should add that I'm not going to attempt this upgrade, but am going to let
> the local computer shop that originally built it, do it, but I wanted to do
> some research first so that I didn't get blinded by the sales pitch, or tech
> talk.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
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