ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard CPU Upgrade

[kegga62]

I have a, ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard. With a, AMD Athlon 6400+ 64x2 Dual Core processor. with 3070mb of ram and
2, Geforce 9800GT 1024mb video cards running in SLI. Running Win.XP
It still plays games great, but I wanted more open gl FPS playing Nascar Racing 2003 season in 1280x1024x32 Res. My monitor Res is set at 1680x1050x32

So I thought I would upgrade My CPU to a : AMD Phenom II X4 970 Black Edition Quad. ASUS Motherboard support say's it will work. It say's the ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard will pretty much take any AMD CPU. I don't understand it. It pretty much tells me that AM2/AM2+ and AM3 are all the same Socket ?
and upgrade my ram with 2 new, 2GB gaming sticks giving me 4GB Ram.


Or should I just get 2 new Video cards to get better FPS ?

 

[rolli59]

You gain more from a CPU upgrade than GPU upgrade at low resolution. 2 x 9800GT in SLI is a powerful setup for 1280 x 1024.
Edit; I do not see the 970BE on the list here http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0jMy2X8lKstYRvev