I want to upgrade the current pentium 4 cpu 3.0 GHz. This is not my main system so I don't want to go for a new build. I want to upgrade the cpu and the ram.
Question 1:
In the Asus website Core2 E8500 is not listed as supported in the list. But in the website userbenchmark i noticed one build using this cpu. What do you think?
Question 2: The asus specs says the maximum supported ram is 4GB. But in the userbenchmark website, I saw a lot of builds had more than that. (one build had 8GB of ram of which 1.7 GB was only free meaning that the system was using more than 4GB) So how is it possible?
(Side note: I have rev 2.0 of this mb so it supports core2 as the asus websites mentions)
Question 1:
In the Asus website Core2 E8500 is not listed as supported in the list. But in the website userbenchmark i noticed one build using this cpu. What do you think?
Question 2: The asus specs says the maximum supported ram is 4GB. But in the userbenchmark website, I saw a lot of builds had more than that. (one build had 8GB of ram of which 1.7 GB was only free meaning that the system was using more than 4GB) So how is it possible?
(Side note: I have rev 2.0 of this mb so it supports core2 as the asus websites mentions)