How to upgrade my P5B m-board?

[jimkiii]

My P5B (with AMD-6300 6-core, 12GB DDR3 ram) is old now. What's the max cpu/ram I can put on this P5B - or is it better to scrap it and get a newer one? funds are limited.

 

[BFG-9000]

Every Asus P5B variant I am aware of is for Core 2 and DDR2, not AMD. What board do you have, exactly?

 

[jimkiii]

It's a P5B for sure. I didn't open up the case to see if there's any version/variant # etched into the board. I built this years ago and still have the P5B User Guide. You're correct, though, the User Guide states the CPU type you mention above, but it accepted the AMD CPU I installed and the 12GB ram. Here's what the BIOS shows:

AMD Fx(tm)-6300 Six-Core 3500hz
12GB DDR3
BIOS: 2201x64
M5A97 R2.0
Socket 942
MicroPatchLevel: 6000825

Anyway, I didn't realize this is a 10-year old mobo (time flies!) - so I'm not going to dink around with it. I'll build up a new one.

Do you have a recommendation of a board/CPU I can replace this with? The only online game I play is World of Tanks - other than that I'm not a rapid gamer. My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti

 

[Gam3r01]

"M5A97 R2.0"
That would be your motherboard.