Mobo Supported CPU

[Bubblehead]

After a BIOS upgrade, my PC just went bunkers. I lost all USBs, floppy, LAN, and a whole host of PCI devices. I've heard of a number of viable solution to revive the system but overall it will be time consuming and not worth the hassle. So I will start from the scratch and do an upgrade. Will an Asus M3A 32 MVP DeLuxe support an AMD Phenom 9500 Agena AM2 +95 Quad Core CPU? I'm replacing the mobo, CPU and a new copy of WinXP Home with SP2, and a new primary HD. I will keep my EVGA GeForce 7950GT video card and other components.

[Ivan]

Board and CPU are a good match... But you'd better get a 64 bit Vista on that... XP will never get the max performance from that processor.

No matter which version of windows you use, your framerate is limited by the videocard.

And that board does NOT have AGP slots at all.

What kind of mobo died by the way... if its ASUS and you still have the original CD, a BIOS recovery is doable (or did you already tried that). Might be possible with other makes too

[Bubblehead]

I conferred with a pro PC tech and his advice was that although a repair/install is doable, and the vast driver problems it had, the end result was a little iffy. I had an Asus M2N32SLI DeLuxe with an AMD Athlon 64 dual core PC4600+.

I already bought the new mobo. Now that I know it will support the Phenom 9500, I'll purchase that also. I'm keeping the GeForce 7950GT video for the moment and upgrade later to a 9xxx series.

The new mobo has a built in sound card but I have an SB Audigy 4. Is the built in sound card equivalent in sound quality as the SB Audigy?

I've heard from a few to stay with WINxp SP2 for now. Guess there's a confidence issue by some towards Vista. What do you thin?

[Mermaid Man]

XP will never get the max performance from that processor.

Claptrap. XP supports quad's. Pretty sure XP Home supports quad, it's just when you go to multiple CPU's (physical) then you need XP Pro.

Since you're basically buying a new rig, I'd get a Intel C2D. Faster than AMD's offerings.