Darkbreeze :
That's not possible, the A8-5500 was first released on Oct. 1, 2012. It could only be 2 years old at the most as seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors
And the APU specs indicate DDR3-1866 is the supported memory speed. The specs for that motherboard also only show DDR3 support.
What that means is that indeed, you might have a fairly decent budget system there to play with.
i have 2 computer there one 7 years old and CM1745 i just bought like one month ago.
the older one is a custum build from my friend with a power supply 500W dont know what the motherboard is but i have taken out the memory out to look at is a DDR2 so if i need to fix it to work it basicly buying the computer new.
to make it easy for me i find something from newegg that is already make and cheap hope it will work great. dont make me wrong that computer work great just not powerful enough for me so i start to looking to what kind of way i can upgrade it. i have read some forum there is someone like me try to upgrade it too. i do some reseach and find out what the motherboard is CM1745 also what kind of GPU can be use. i see it could support even more powerful GPU but i dont think my CPU is good enough for it so just pick something like work great and cheap.
there is other post say can just add a GTX 750 TI in my computer without changing the power supply. why put a good 500W power supply a side if i could put it to work.
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