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Switching Motherboards, will this work?

I am switching this motherboard

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/165/1/

CPU Supports AMD Socket-939 Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 processor

Processor interface via 2000MT/s HyperTransport bus

Chipset nForce4 Ultra (VNF4 Ultra)

Memory Four 184-pin DDR DIMMs up to 4GB

Supports Dual Channel DDR266/333/400 memory

Expansion Slots

PCI Express x16 port for PCI Express graphics card

Two PCI Express x1 ports

Three 32bit PCI slots (v2.3 compliant)

Audio Subsystem

Supports enhanced NVIDIA 7.1-channel audio

Complies with AC'97 Rev 2.3 specifications

Six audio jacks with automatic jack sensing

Supports 48KHz coaxial S/PDIF output

EAX/Direct Sound 3D/I3DL2/A3D compatible

SATA Supports four native SATA 1.5Gb/s devices (VNF4)

Supports four native SATA2 3.0Gb/s devices (VNF4 Ultra)

Hot-swap capability, allowing disks to be changed without powering down the system.

Optimized for the high-performance NVIDIA RAID technology

Supports SATA ATAPI devices

UltraDMA IDE Ports

Supports 2 UltraDMA-66/100/133 IDE ports

Embedded system monitoring

Temperature sensing for CPU and system

Fan speed monitoring and control for CPU and system

NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet

Supports 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit Ethernet with external PHY

NVIDIA ActiveArmor A dedicated secure networking engine enhances networking security while reducing CPU overhead

Specialized features defend against spyware intrusions and hacker attacks

An intelligent application manager alerts you when unknown applications attempt to access the network

Supports the new Microsoft networking architecture for fast and secure networking

Boot-Block Flash ROM Award system BIOS supports PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI, & Multi-device booting features

Other Feature Rear panel I/O ports

PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard port

25-pin D-Sub female Parallel port

Two 9-pin D-Sub male Serial ports

Four USB ports and one RJ45 connector

6-port Audio Jack for 7.1-Channel and S/PDIF output

Internal I/O connectors

Four 3x1 pin fan connectors

Three 5x2 pin USB connectors for additional 6 USB ports

3x1 pin wake on LAN connector with housing

3x1 pin wake on Modem connector with housing

Two 4x1 pin CD-in connectors with 2.54mm pitch housing

5x2 pin Front Audio connector

9x2 pin Front Panel connector

24 pin ATX Power connector

4 pin ATX 12V Power connector

for this one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8...

Model

Brand ECS

Model A780GM-A

Supported CPU

CPU Socket Type AM2+/AM2

CPU Type Phenom FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2

FSB 2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s)

Chipsets

North Bridge AMD 780G

South Bridge AMD SB700

Memory

Number of Memory Slots 4×240pin

Memory Standard DDR2 1066/800

DDR2 1066 is supported by AM2+ CPU only

Maximum Memory Supported 32GB

(Due to the DRAM maximum size is 2GB at present, the memory maximum size have been tested is 8GB)

Channel Supported Dual Channel

Expansion Slots

PCI Express x16 1

PCI Express x1 2

PCI Slots 3

Storage Devices

PATA 1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max

SATA 3Gb/s 5

SATA RAID 0/1/10

Onboard Video

Onboard Video Chipset ATI Radeon HD 3200

Onboard Audio

Audio Chipset IDT 92HD206

Audio Channels 8 Channels

Onboard LAN

LAN Chipset ATHROS L1

Max LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps

Rear Panel Ports

PS/2 2

Video Ports D-Sub

HDMI 1 x HDMI

USB 1.1/2.0 6 x USB 2.0

eSATA 1 x eSATA 3Gb/s

Audio Ports 6 Ports

Onboard USB

Onboard USB 4 x USB 2.0

Physical Spec

Form Factor ATX

Dimensions 12.0" x 8.3"

Windows Vista Certified for Windows Vista

Power Pin 24 Pin

Features

Features The A780GM-A is ECS Black Series platform, The A780GM-A provides the AMD latest technology Hybrid Graphics and also features support for UVD 2.0, DirectX 10, PCI Express2.0 and HDMI/HDCP for the extreme graphic performance computing. The ECS A780GM-A is the best reliable choice for AMD AM2+ platform

And I am wondering if that will work.

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    the new motherboard will not be able to use your current cpu and ram. your current motherboard uses socket 939 cpu's and ddr ram. the new motherboard uses socket am2/am2+ cpu's and ddr2 ram.

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    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    as long as he would not could reformat the stressful force your documents could be risk-free. basically verify he's conscious you have stuff on it which you pick till now he starts off engaged on it.

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