what is the best processor for a quasar motherboard?

Question

i have a packard bell ixtreme 6070 it's 5 year old and just recently put in radeon x1950 pro graphics card and 1.5 ram and would like to upgrade processor from amd athlon 2800 to amd athlon 64 dual core 6000 do i need to change my motherboard

Answer 1

You currently have a socket A board. You need a new AM2, mobo for X2 6000+. If your new X1950 Pro is AGP, you would have limited choice on AM2 mobos w/ AGP slot. Typically, it would be based on Nvidia's NF-3 chipset. I think Asrock and Gigabyte still have it. AM2 mobos use 240 pin ddr2 RAM. You will not be able to use your current 184 pin ddr modules.