Recent content by Ben_42

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    Will 10 run better on my system?

    hello. I have a system with around a 10 year old mother board with 8GB DDR2 400ghz ram, an AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 CPU with a 249GB SSD boot drive and an RX 550 graphics card running windows 7. My question is would my system run better on Windows 10?
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    Can I use a 125W Phenom 2 X4 in my motherboard

    Hello I have question about wattage. I have a Biostar a760G m2 motherboard that currently has a Athlon 2 250 3.Ghz CPU and I'm looking to upgrade the CPU. My question is this. Can I use a 125 watt cpu in this motherboard? the CUP support list here...
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    upgradeing processor on an AM2 mobo

    I've heard that you can put an am3 processor into a am2 mobo if the bios is upgraded. I have a compaq mobo with an NVIDIA chipset model MCP61. Would I be able to put one this AM3 processor http://www.microcenter.com/product/401797/FX_6300_Black_Edition_35GHz_Six-Core_Socket_AM3_Boxed_Processor...
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    what mother boards can I use

    thanks for the info. the processor and ram are pretty cheap too. I was looking at either the 4.0Ghz 8 core AMD for 140 or a 3.2ghz AMD 8 core for a hundred and 8 gigs of ram to start out with for 35 bucks. I have everything else I need though I do wonder if I would maybe want to get a better...
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    what mother boards can I use

    I have a compaq SR 5000 computer that I'm thinking of turning into a sleeper computer,(I've actually upgraded some stuff already, increased the ram, added a sata port card a 1TB data storage drive and just recently bought a 2GB graphics card). What I would like to know is what form factor mother...