Thinking about a new CPU - will it work?

[Jason]

I have the Asus A8N SLI-Deluxe and I'm looking at getting an Athlon 64 x2 6000+ but I'm not sure if it will work in my motherboard. I did a little searching but didn't find anything conclusive. Anyone have any ideas or know off hand?

Thanks in advance.

-Jason

[Mike]

I'd say it's time for a motherboard upgrade...:) (go intel!)

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx

(it only supports up to 4800+)

[HETT]

Nope. The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe is a Socket 939 motherboard. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is only available in Socket AM2.

[Jason]

gah! See, I don't really want to go through all that right now. I have my raids and data drives set up like I like them and I really don't want to go through all that crap right now. Do you think upgrading to the 4800+ will be enough of an upgrade to even notice?

-Jason

[Jason]

Nope. The Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe is a Socket 939 motherboard. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ is only available in Socket AM2.

... yeah, if I would have spent a little more time (and been a little more awake to put forth the effort) last night I would have figured that out. I'm so ashamed of how out of touch with PC hardware I am now. I used to be up on everything but alas, priorities change as you get older.

-Jason

[jordibax]

... yeah, if I would have spent a little more time (and been a little more awake to put forth the effort) last night I would have figured that out. I'm so ashamed of how out of touch with PC hardware I am now. I used to be up on everything but alas, priorities change as you get older.

-Jason
I had a 3500+ in the same motherboard as you (socket 939) with 2gb hyperx$$$ ram, and changing to intel or higher than 4800x2 (higher means go to am2) would have made me change to ddr2 and waste a good mobo and good ram. I decided to buy 4800x2 because i think it is a good enough processor to run games for a good time only upgrading the 3dcard. I don´t think that soon i ´ll find a bottleneck from gpu-cpu , specially when the upcoming directx10 is supposed to be less dependant to the cpu that dx9. If I had to make the same choice now, i would go for 4600x2 instead, because it is much more cheaper, easier to find, and it´s lower cache gives you the same gaming performance as the 4800x2 (1mb L2 cache). Buying 4600x2, I would wait for a complete upgrade saving the money from the new (am2/intel) mobo and ddr2 ram to spend it in a really good Card.

[jordibax]

By the way of performance, in single applications like word or nero, obviously not much difference. In oblivion (the worst optimized game ever), with an x850pro, 4fps average increase. But I it is really necessary to install the amd dual core game patch. Games like warcraft3 went crazy many times.

[Shroud]

I was in the same situation at the beginning of this year. I purchased an AMD XP 3500+ 2 years ago right when the socket 939 first came out. I thought to myself, well in a few years just pop in a new socket 939 cpu and I will have an easy upgrade.
AMD dropped the 939 in favor of the AM2 and the 4800+ is almost vaporware and way overpriced due to everyone with a socket 939 trying to upgrade. I bit the bullet and built a whole new PC over and went with the Intel C2D and I have never been happier. The performance difference between a 3500+ and a E6600 is huge and I don't regret my purchase.
I'm hoping that Intel will stick with the socket 775 for awhile, but not holding my breath.

[Jason]

I decided to go with the "last hurrah" for my 939 board: an opteron 180 which will be arriving today. The 4800+ was, as you said, pretty much impossible to find so I decided the 180 was a better alternative. :)

Thanks for the assistance.

-Jason