[PLUG-AV] Athalon 64 system: PCI or PCI-E x16 Graphics, and IDE HDD needed

[Jason Nicholls]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 8:04 PM, James Bromberger <james at rcpt.to> wrote:
> On 18/04/2011 7:50 PM, Jason Nicholls wrote:
>> What's the motherboard brand/model?
> Asus M2N-SLI, http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NSLI/
> Not the delux. Has on-board Firewire, and gig ethernet! Claims to have
> Nvidia nForce 560 SLI tech, but there's no video output.
>
> Happy to hand it to someone who has parts and time to evaluate it.
>
> Oh,. looks like it can be U-DMA, or SATA for storage.

We might just be in luck with this motherboard, there is a bios update (5001)
that allows for the quad-core Athlon CPUs:

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/list.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=24&m=M2N-SLI&os=&hashedid=FsG6bN2HsOMpwLxD

I did this very thing with my aging M2NPV-VM motherboard and put a quad
core CPU in there and it's all working fine! I upgraded to a Phenom II X4 925
(2.8ghz) and it was about $115 i think.

Jason