Upgrading AMD Athlon 1640B to Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition

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Hi, Would I be able to straight up swap my AMD Athlon 1640B Proccessor to the all new hyped up Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition?

If now, What would I need to do to swap them?

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Nope. Square peg , round hole.

You would need a new motherboard and likely ram. What are your complete system specs?

 

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Hi EarthDog,

I was thinking that, Its a Semi-Customized NEC Powermate VL370.
Standard Mobo
4gb RAM
AMD Athlon 1640B

What would be a pretty cheap Mobo that could take the Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition and around 4-8gb of RAM?

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Assuming you are overclocking... since you are getting an overclocking chip, Something like this would be solid: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157507&cm_re=Z97-_-13-157-507-_-Product

 

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Hi EarthDog,
Thanks for all your help. I have added this to my Birthday wishlist and will be ordering it pretty soon with the amazingly cheap new Intel Pentium G3258 Anniversary Edition.

I am not going to close this thread yet in case someone else has another mobo suggestion but thanks so much EarthDog.

 

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Hi, EarthDog.

Just looking through the NewEgg catalogue, I saw THIS mobo (BIOSTAR Hi-Fi B85S3+ Ver. 6.x LGA 1150 Intel B85 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard), Would this be any good? I will not be hard core gaming really, Just some rendering and low intensity gaming like Minecraft etc.

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Is the cpu on that board s compatibility list? Check the website.

 

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Hi EarthDog,

Yes, Perfect MOBO.

So cheap and on the compatibility list!

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Hi Steve &

I googled the NEC Powermate VL370 and see there are a few cases. Do you have the micro-tower or the small form factor case?

ED does mATX fit into mBTX? IDK

 

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Hi JLK03F150,

Im not sure, But when you open it up, The from comes off with the side and you have to lift the DVD drive and HDD to access the mobo.

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That sounds like the small form factor case. I've been doing some reading and I think you'll need another case if you get an mATX motherboard. The I/O and expansion slots are on opposite sides of the board. Also it is possible your power supply won't fit in an mATX case.

Can you post a photo of the back of your case so we can tell for sure?

 

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Yes, I agree. I cannot post a photo of the back because my iPhone wont let me but having looked properly at my case and the new mobo, its exactly as you said. Thanks for everyones help.