Hi ppl,
I own an AMD Athlon 64 based system and it's been 2 months since Ive put it together by myself. It's my second PC and my first AMD experience !
The motherboard is Gigabyte's GA-K8NF-9 which uses the nForce4 4x chipset and the CPU is an AMD64 3.0 GHz ( 1.8 GHz Winchester clock ).
This whole setup is damn gud ( boots completely in 30 secs WinXP 64 bits ) and I wudn't be complaining at all. But its jus my nag at upgrading that I think i wud be planning in on goin dual core in no time soon, jus for the fun of it .
But there seems to be a problem to it. The mobo only operates on 1600 FSB and the dual cores all go on a 2000 FSB. My question is : Wud I be able to upgrade into an AMD dual core processor using this same motherboard ? If i do wud there be a performance hindrance to it bcos of the slow FSB ?
BUT... the mobo doc, the box in which it came and even Gigabyte site says that the mobo does support dual core CPU's but im not much happy bcos of the slow FSB that thesse fast CPU's wud be demanding.
thanx ...
I own an AMD Athlon 64 based system and it's been 2 months since Ive put it together by myself. It's my second PC and my first AMD experience !
The motherboard is Gigabyte's GA-K8NF-9 which uses the nForce4 4x chipset and the CPU is an AMD64 3.0 GHz ( 1.8 GHz Winchester clock ).
This whole setup is damn gud ( boots completely in 30 secs WinXP 64 bits ) and I wudn't be complaining at all. But its jus my nag at upgrading that I think i wud be planning in on goin dual core in no time soon, jus for the fun of it .
But there seems to be a problem to it. The mobo only operates on 1600 FSB and the dual cores all go on a 2000 FSB. My question is : Wud I be able to upgrade into an AMD dual core processor using this same motherboard ? If i do wud there be a performance hindrance to it bcos of the slow FSB ?
BUT... the mobo doc, the box in which it came and even Gigabyte site says that the mobo does support dual core CPU's but im not much happy bcos of the slow FSB that thesse fast CPU's wud be demanding.
thanx ...