Help with my mobo :(

[colosus70]

Here is my information i have about my motherboard but can someone please help me as i need to know what proccessor and what type of graphics card i can have for it thank you


Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. A7N8X-E REV 2.xx
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1013






NVIDIA.......GAMING AT IT'S BEST!

 

[PC eye]

Having run the exact same board in an old case here you can slap 2gb of DDR 400 PC3200 memory and an Atholon XP3200+ in there. The fsb is then set to 200mhz. The specifications can be seen in the user manual that comes with the board itself or online at http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/nforce2/a7n8x-e/e1876_a7n8x-e_deluxe.pdf Look on page #10

 

[colosus70]

ok thank you very much are those the more sutiable type's i should think about getting or are they just the ones you know?

 

[Dazzeerr]

Pretty sure thats the max you can run, pretty old board. Maybe you should think about a new one?

 

[PC eye]

I ran an older Radeon 9550 256mb AGP card as well as two previously installed GeForce FX5200 128mb models one by Asus and later MSI when running that board. You would have to look on EBay at this time in order to locate an older Socket A model to start with let alone one that will run at 400mhz.

The 2800+ and 3000+ came in both 333 and 400mhz models while the 3200+ or if rarely found 3400+ will see the 400mhz fsb. The 3400+ were originally provided to CompaQs in prebuilt systems only until they were bought out and surplus cpus were simply sold through vendors like newegg as replacements parts.