On 11/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ben Edwards</b> <<a href="mailto:funkytwig@gmail.com">funkytwig@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dont want to have to change the motherboard because I would also<br>probably have to get a new flower fan and possibly memory.</blockquote><div><br>Flower fan?<br><br>You wouldn't need new memory if you went to a socket 939 board.
<br><br>I just upgraded my main desktop from an Athlon 2000+ (socket A) to an Athlon64 3500+ (socket 939) and the total cost for motherboard + cpu was on the order of 90 GBP. The DDR 333 memory I already had works fine, so whatever you've got in your socket 754 board will also be fine.
<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I thought<br>the Athon64s were not being made any more (<a href="http://dabs.com">
dabs.com</a> in the UK don't<br>sell them) but will look into this further. <br></blockquote></div><br>You should still be able to find socket 754 Athlon64s, but the best you can get is still only 3700+ (<a href="http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADA3700AEP5AR">
http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/desktop/details.aspx?opn=ADA3700AEP5AR</a>). I'm not sure that's all that great an upgrade for you. Socket 939 would allow you to go as far as an FX-60 or a X2 4800+ (not sure how much benefit dual cores would be - you'd want to look into that).
<br><br>Steve<br>