upgrade for AMD Athlon 64 Processor 300+ 754-pin socket processor?

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#1 Animal-Mother
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Any suggestions for upgrading my CPU from this one AMD Athlon 64 Processor 300+ 754-pin socket processor. Sorry if I seem ignorant at all im sort of no on the up to date stuff with PC's. Any suggestions between 100-150 would be great!

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#2 smc91352
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Sempron 140-$37 with this AM3 SLI motherboard-$100; or save some more and get a Dual-Core. AM3 Dual-Cores start at $60 with this one.

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#3 Animal-Mother
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Sempron 140-$37 with this AM3 SLI motherboard-$100; or save some more and get a Dual-Core. AM3 Dual-Cores start at $60 with this one.

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So basically. it has to be a processor with a new motherboard? I don't mind spending a little extra if need be. And out of the two which would you recommend?
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#4 smc91352
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[QUOTE="smc91352"]

Sempron 140-$37 with this AM3 SLI motherboard-$100; or save some more and get a Dual-Core. AM3 Dual-Cores start at $60 with this one.

Animal-Mother

So basically. it has to be a processor with a new motherboard? I don't mind spending a little extra if need be. And out of the two which would you recommend?

The Dual-Core; but if you're already willing to spend a little more: get a better AM3-Socket CPU.

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#5 smc91352
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If you don't care about SLI, I'd advise you get this combo-$207; its got the best Dual-Core.

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#6 Animal-Mother
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Thanks a ton man I really appreciate the help. I think im gonna go with this and this

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#7 Animal-Mother
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Thanks a ton man I really appreciate the help. I think im gonna go with this and this

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#8 Captain__Tripps
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Isn't socket 754 DDR ram? If so you will need to get new ram as well.
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#9 Chris_53
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im sure thats DDR so new ram will deffo be needed
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#10 SLIisaownsystem
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nice u go for SLI

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#11 hartsickdiscipl
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nice u go for SLI

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I have to ask.. why do you think SLI is a movement against Intel?

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I have a regor 245, well worth the money!

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#13 Animal-Mother
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[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"][QUOTE="smc91352"]

Sempron 140-$37 with this AM3 SLI motherboard-$100; or save some more and get a Dual-Core. AM3 Dual-Cores start at $60 with this one.

smc91352

So basically. it has to be a processor with a new motherboard? I don't mind spending a little extra if need be. And out of the two which would you recommend?

The Dual-Core; but if you're already willing to spend a little more: get a better AM3-Socket CPU.

So i'm gonna go with the AM3 SLI motherboard and the AM3 $60 dual core. Now the mobo takes DDR3 ram? Is there any specific type I should know of?
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[QUOTE="smc91352"]

[QUOTE="Animal-Mother"] So basically. it has to be a processor with a new motherboard? I don't mind spending a little extra if need be. And out of the two which would you recommend?Animal-Mother

The Dual-Core; but if you're already willing to spend a little more: get a better AM3-Socket CPU.

So i'm gonna go with the AM3 SLI motherboard and the AM3 $60 dual core. Now the mobo takes DDR3 ram? Is there any specific type I should know of?

DDR3 1333MHz most typically.
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Any standard DDR3 RAM will do. Any 1066 or 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM should do fine. Your mobo will support 1600 MHz but you won't see anything out of that unless your whole rig overclocked to really high speeds. So standard cheap RAM is the way to go.

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#16 Animal-Mother
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thanks some more guys!

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#17 Threesixtyci
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I'd spend the extra 40 bucks and get this processor instead, myself...

AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 80W Dual-Core Processor - Retail

It has an unlocked multiplier for better overclocking, as well. And it's really a quad core with two cores disabled, so there is a slim chance that you can unlock the two extra cores. But only if the motherboard's bios has the hybrid feature to do it, and if the disabled cores aren't disabled, because they were defective.

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#18 chefkw
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Check your video card, too. You're not going to want to find out you have an incompatible AGP card while you put it all together.

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#19 aura_enchanted
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in short you have jsut been drawn into a trap your gonna be the very neglectful papa/mama of a whole new rig :P hate to say it but its like this diff cpu = diff mobo for its socket = usually meaning newer ram & gpu but to power that gpu your going to need a better psu :P tada i saved you all 6 feet of thread posts :P