Ok this is my first time building a system myself....ok my question is this: Did i screw myself with this motherboard.....since its one of the first ASUS motherboards that support AMD2 processors? I noticed that most of the newer boards specifically state things like dual L2 cache support? Am I going to get any benifit out of my dual processor? Any information one can give me will help? Please give me as much help as possible I am a novice but understand the technology -----Motherboard ASUS M2V AM2 VIA K8T890 DDR2 533/667/800 PCI-E x16 SATA AUDIO LAN ATX I noticed that most of the newer boards specifically state things like dual L2 cache support? ---------CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 AM2 4200+ DUAL CORE RETAIL BOX & HEAT SINK and COOLING FAN --------Memory Memory 1GB DDR2 667MHz Memory 1GB DDR2 667MHz --------Harddrive Hard Drive Maxtor 120GB Serial ATA 7200rpm 8MB Hard Drive IF anyone can help.....I want to replace my MoBo if i have to before i put it together???
it shud be fine however i wud hav suggested that u got the asus m2n-e rather than this becoz that has got many overclocking features and other features aswell. its not really worth getting a descent processor like that and not a excelletn board to match it however im not trying to say this board is crap. how much did u pick this board up for?
about 75$....i haven't played with overclocking too much....I was curious if i will still get the ful benifit of the dual processor/vista etc as time moves on...
Just because you haven't doesn't mean you won't, especially since you're building this yourself. People who build their own PCs are 85% more likely to overclock their systems and yes 85% is a statistic I pulled out of my hat, I don't know what the real percentage is but you are going to be more likely (I was). And I'm not talking about people who build their computers through online interfaces (like Dell or HP), but those who select each part and put it together when it comes in the mail. It is then that you learn to configure the BIOS and you begin to read about memory and vol7ages. Because at first you don't want to hurt your system, but then you see how your system compares to others (using PCMark) and then you say "wow" because they have such higher scores than you and thus the OCing process begins. But as said above the M2V is basic.
Socket AM2 has dual core (ie. the X2 Athlons) CPU's available from the get-go, whereas Socket 939 did not. It's standard feature that gets more attention because it helps to sell the product. AM2 board reviews are still pretty rare, given that the socket is new. However, with the Athlon64 design not getting some major overhaul here, I don't think we're going to see any real problems.
