can i upgrade to a phenom with this motherboard

corpclegg

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can i upgrade to a phenrom quad with this mother board A8M2N-LA (NodusM3) ? please help. i have a 5200 x2 right now. im a gamer. there is a ipdate for my motherboard bios just this month. so any more opinions? im not going quad until feb or so. im waiting for amd to update the quads. so what do you guys think?
 
I would not gamble on it. You have an hp board, which is not listed on asus' website. The phenom might post as "unknown cpu", but I don't know how it will run on your board. Couldn't find a bios update on the hp website for your board.