How to upgrade Motherboard related to your requirement?
Upgrading to new motherboard gives your PC a new life. A new motherboard can add support for all the new technologies such as,
USB 2.0,
Firewire,
Serial ATA,
Integrated LAN &
Front-Panel LED.
Also support 64-bit processors and super-fast PCI Express graphics. New motherboard can hugely speed up your PC when combining with processor. Also allowing you to do cool things such as video and audio editing that your old motherboard doesn’t support.
You should also get lots of useful features, such as good surround sound, and integrated network adaptor, even build in anti virus and firewall capabilities.
Choosing Motherboard
You have to combine motherboard upgrade with a processor upgrade, because keeping your existing processor will minimize your processing speed and limits your motherboard choice. Once you finalize processor and then you are free to choose motherboard with the correct socket.
Checking a Motherboard Compatibility
Thing’s to consider is whether your power supply, memory, graphics card and hard disk will work with a new motherboard. If component is too old that it doesn’t work with new motherboard, then you have to replace it. You need to know about the component which you need to update so that you can budget your upgrade.
Motherboard Size also to check will upgrade
Processor | Socket | Bus speed | Min memory speed |
Sempron | Socket AM2 | 200MHz (400MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR2 RAM |
Socket 754 | 200MHz (400MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR RAM | |
Athlon 64/64 X2/64 FX | Socket AM2 | 200MHz (400MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR2 RAM |
Socket 939 | 200MHz (400MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR RAM | |
Celeron D | Socket 775 | 133MHz (533MHz effective) | PC2100 DDR RAM |
Socket 478 | 133MHz (533MHz effective) | PC2100 DDR RAM | |
Pentium 4 | Socket 775 | 200MHz* (800MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR RAM |
Socket 478 | 200MHz (800MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR RAM | |
Pentium D | Socket 775 | 200MHz* (800MHz effective) | PC3200 DDR RAM |
Core 2 Duo | Socket 775 | 266MHz (1,066MHz effective) | PC4200 DDR2 RAM |
Core 2 Extreme | Socket 775 | 266MHz (1,066MHz effective) | PC4200 DDR2 RAM |
Boards and cases come in standard shapes and size. Most new motherboards are ATX and require an ATX case (cabinet). Check when you are upgrading.
Number of Slot’s on the motherboard and the RAM Support.
Your motherboard should support DDR2 or latest Ram, reason behind it, it is the latest RAM and it is the fastest one available in the market. You need to take care of the RAM speed, because if you buy higher speed RAM and your motherboard is not supporting it then is an wastage of your money.
Your Current Motherboard have to be at least 4 memory slot, the reason behind is it, if you are going to upgrade your PC in the future then the motherboard have to support the up gradation in since of RAM memory Capacity.