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[Fors]

I currently have a AMD Athlon 64x2 dule core 5400+  in a ASUSm3n78-vm mother board. I am winding up to play diablo and maybe want to upgrade my cpu, I have the min. to play but im thinking i should upgrade any sugestions?

[WORM]

Fck if I know what diablo requires. 

[Fors]

OK

[WORM]

If you can catch alka inbetween diapers he might be able to give some advice. 

[Fors]

II X4 965BE  I think i found the answer to my ? Alka you agree?

[alka]

Well, that processor is socket AM3 and your motherboard is socket AM2.
It's still compatible, but only drawback is you wont be able to use DDR3 memory, only DDR2.
If you already have DDR2 memory, then it doesn't matter.

I'd personally get the 955 instead of the 965. Only 200mhz slower, you'd never know the difference and save a few bucks too.

What's your other computer specs? Hate to upgrade your cpu and have the real bottleneck be memory/video card.

PS.. I check my email 20,531 times a day, but forum only "between diaper changes". 

[The Cleaner]

Diablo III should be very playable, but I don't know your system specs.  In beta I'm running a very high end box and getting huge FPS, and on my c2d e8500 w/ sli 9800gt's (mediocre box) I'm still getting close to triple digit FPS at points.  However, this is beta, so the retail version may include more bells & whistles graphically.

Either way, you're never going to get an AM3 cpu to work with an AM2 socket mobo.  My recommendation:  the new intel Sandybridge CPU's are super affordable and are quick as can be for pretty much all around computing and gaming.  Save a bit of cash on the front end and put it toward a GTX 580 or some other very nice GPU.

[alka]

Either way, you're never going to get an AM3 cpu to work with an AM2 socket mobo. 

sure ya can. don't call me a liar 

[Targe+]

Is it open beta? I wanna try it out when it's released.

[Legend]

Cleaner said box!

[Fors]

this is what I ended up getting....
evga gtx560ti
gigabyte ga-990fxa am3+
corsair 750w
samsong 22x sata dvd
amd fx-4100 black ed
corsair 8gb ssd sata II

I had an old xblade atx box so i saved some mone there..I changed it up a bit but stuck close to your recommendations alka thanks again!!

[h0ps]

WGA > alka     

 

[angry]

corsair 8gb ssd sata II

I hope that's not the only HD you've got in the system. Eight gigabytes isn't much at all.

[amarris]

Not in open beta Target, could be soon though depending, seems a lot more invites are going out

[alka]

I'm assuming he meant 8gb system memory  

h0ps? download crazy with updates?  

Fors, let us know how far you overclock that cpu!