Can my motherboard have duo core

huh?

If your computer is an HP Pavilion with P4 3GHz, no does not support a core 2 duo procesor.

Next time can you please give full specifications of your system when you need help.

You could easily say " i have an Hp pavilion with the following serial number" etc. you would have gotten your repliues so much faster.

would the computer happen to be an HP Pavilion t849.uk Desktop PC?

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en...

If so then no.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00...

 

looks like you and I came to the same conclusion. just a little slower on posting for me.

This motherboard in a nutshell will not support a core 2 duo chip... this motherboard is based on the intel 915 chipset which was for early 775 based pentium 4's

This is your motherboard..

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&dlc=e...

you will need to replace this with a newer Intel Chipset based motherboard and replace the processor..

the video card will be ok but I would recommend getting some ddr2-800.


failing that replace the whole machine as this is about 5 - 6 years old and you should start again from new.

hope this helps