Nvidia Nforce 590 sli

[Duppong336]

Hello tech community,

I recently purchased an older gaming pc and I'm looking to speed up this fossil.

its got:

(MB) Nvidia nforce 590 sli
(CPU) Amd Athlon 64 x2 6000+ 3.00ghz
(RAM) DDR2 6GB
(OPS) Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit o/s
(GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 512 GTS
(HDD) 300GB
(PSU) Thermaltake Tough power 700w

So my question is what are my options as far as upgrading my Processor for my current set up?
I called a computer store and the guy didn't really give me any good answers besides "oh we will have to look at you're set up and that's $95.00." So any responses from the community will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Josh D

 

[Darkbreeze]

Well, we'd have to take a look at your setup.

Nah, just kidding. Honestly, the cost and effort of finding a CPU that would actually offer you any additional benefit over what you already have makes upgrading a pretty dismal effort. New CPUs for that chipset are extremely hard to find, expensive when you do find them and honestly don't offer much advantage beyond the chip you already have installed. You would be much better off upgrading the cpu, motherboard and RAM as one upgrade. More expensive, I know, but any other way isn't going to improve things for you much if at all.

I know that's probably not what you want to hear, but it is what it is.

It also makes a big difference which board you have as there are a ton of boards that used the nforce 590 SLI chipset. We would need to know the exact motherboard model number, which should be printed on the board itself, or the model number of the computer if it was a prebuilt system.

The fact that the store rep told you that is likely due to the above facts. They knew it would be an involved effort without a lot of gain and very little profit for them, so they just try to brush you off. Can't say I blame them although they could have explained why it's not a very likeable path to upgrade rather than being dumb about it.