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I need help choosing a motherboard to upgrade to because my current mobo is Gigabyte
GA-P35-DS3l the problem is that this mobo has a Socket 775 and that only supports Quad-core / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo / Pentium Extreme / Pentium D. I want to upgrade to an fx 6300 which requires a am3+ Socket here are my current specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.14 Ghz overclocked to 3.8 Ghz
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 192 core
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3l motherboard
4gb DDR2 800mhz Ram
Western Digital WD Black 1TB hard-drive 7200 rpm
550W Cooler Master PSU

will this motherboard be okay it has a Am3+ Socket :) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157396
AS Rock 960GM-VGS3




 
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Karadjgne
It is the most basic mobo available. 1 fan other than CPU, supports 1600 and 1866 only through OC, and does not support sata 6G HDD. If you choose this board for price alone you are taking a step backwards. The fx6300 is an overclocking beast of a CPU, and the ASRock vs you mention will not do it any justice. For better all around performance, I would suggest the ASRock Extreme 3 r2.0. It costs more but is a way better board, better chipset, better compatibility all around.

When you do move to the AM3+ board, whichever you do choose, you will also have to buy new ram. DDR2 is not the same as DDR3, so you existing ram cannot be used. I would recommend CL 9 or CL 10, 1866 (pc 15000 or pc 14900) dual channel 2x4Gb. 1600 will work too...
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It is the most basic mobo available. 1 fan other than CPU, supports 1600 and 1866 only through OC, and does not support sata 6G HDD. If you choose this board for price alone you are taking a step backwards. The fx6300 is an overclocking beast of a CPU, and the ASRock vs you mention will not do it any justice. For better all around performance, I would suggest the ASRock Extreme 3 r2.0. It costs more but is a way better board, better chipset, better compatibility all around.

When you do move to the AM3+ board, whichever you do choose, you will also have to buy new ram. DDR2 is not the same as DDR3, so you existing ram cannot be used. I would recommend CL 9 or CL 10, 1866 (pc 15000 or pc 14900) dual channel 2x4Gb. 1600 will work too, just not quite as well in AMD systems. Will be @ $70-80 for 8Gb, a little less for 4Gb, depending on what windows you have, 64 or 32 bit.
 
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I found a few, but they were either no longer carried, sold out with no data if they would be reordered, did not support fx CPUs or your memory speed. Pretty much DDR2 is a dying standard in memory with the current speeds available in DDR3 easily doubling what you have now, and going up to over 5x as fast.
 
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