upgrading to AN9-32X

[liteace]

Hi All Im new here to the forum and need a little advise. I have been running for the last 6 years an Asrock socket A with AMD athlon XP 2700+, 1Gb ram. This machine is fantastically fast & stable for an old PC, problem is im running out of sata connections as this only has 2 on the motherboard. I have just bought myself a brand new (old stock) Abit AN9-32X motherboard as it has 6 onboard sata’s, I would like to know what is the fastest for me CPU that will go in it, Im not a gamer, I don’t have any games on my PC & I will not be over clocking. I use the PC for home \ work and it has a lot of automotive software on. Thing is I don’t want to build it all up and its going to be slower that what Im using now, any advise would be appreciated

Thanks
Steve

[ABIT Sean]

If I remember correctly the highest CPU supported was the AMD 64 X2 6400. Not sure if the faster CPUs were officially supported by the BIOS.
There should still be a support list on the abit website www.abit.com.tw

[liteace]

Thanks for the info. as I say it dont have to be super fast as its not used for gaming but would like it to be better than what iI have

[ABIT Sean]

I'm still using a AMD Athlon 5600+ X2 in one of my machines and its more than capable of most things. The main problem is finding them as don't believe they are availiable everywhere anymore.

But check ebay and for sale section on this forum, you might be able to find a bargin.

[liteace]

Hi does anyone know what the max memory graphics card I can install on this m\board. It takes the PCI-e card, I have seen 256Mb cards, will it take a 512Mb or is it not needed for what I use the PC for ??

Thanks
Steve