{"id":12170,"date":"2021-12-09T00:21:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=12170"},"modified":"2021-12-09T00:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T00:22:04","slug":"best-possible-upgrade-for-an-wmcp61m-am2-w-athlon64-x2-5600","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/cpus\/best-possible-upgrade-for-an-wmcp61m-am2-wathlon64-x2-5600\/17455.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Possible Upgrade For An WMCP61M AM2 w\/Athlon64 X2 5600+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just recently purchased an AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor and placed it into my old &#8220;form-factor&#8221; pc-motherboard: an eMachines (WMCP61M &#8211; Socket AM2). It now runs a lot faster than the original single-core 2650e chip. And not to worry my fellow techies, I also upgraded the power-supply and computer-case to a Thermaltake (Plenty of breathing room now and the chip is running just where it needs to be @ 55 degrees Celsius)<\/p>\n<p>My new power supply is a CoolerMaster &#8220;Glite&#8221; 460w (Dual +12V1 and +12V2 output \/ for high-power usage).<\/p>\n<p>MY QUESTION:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking to upgrade the motherboard but not necessarily the RAM (DDR2 &#8211; 4GB) since I just upgraded that not long ago and I recently came across the ASUS Crosshair AM2. I like the 8 phase EL-Capless power design feature of this motherboard, but also wonder if I could do better than that while retaining the DDR2\/RAM I already have?<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":16},"question-category":[44],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-12170","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-cpus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/12170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=12170"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=12170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}