I'm thinking of upgrading from my current Athlon 64 3500+ to an Athlon 64 X2 5000+ but am not sure if it will even work. I've checked a bunch of sites and it should be compatible but can't say for sure. Also I'm not sure if I can have a different cache size on a new processor than I have now. I'm not sure if I have an NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI or NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra because my pc says it's M2N-E at startup, but as you see in the picture it says SLI and at http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NE/#specifications
it says M2N-E is Ultra.
NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI is at http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NSLI_Deluxe/#specifications
My current setup:
it says M2N-E is Ultra.
NVIDIA nForce 570 SLI is at http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/AMD_AM2/M2NSLI_Deluxe/#specifications
My current setup: