A8V deluxe question

I have an older Asus A8V Deluxe and I don't really see a listing for it (and
maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place) on their website. I see A8V and
I'm assuming that the specs would be roughly the same (the website where I
purcased the motherbaord lists it as discontinued, but this may just be
because they don't carry the deluxe version)? Since I'm sort of iffy on this
I have a couple of questions... can I use a AMD ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ DUAL CORE
processor in this older motherboard? And would this processor give me better
overall performance with all other things being equal with apps like
Photoshop, Illustrator etc... over a AMD ATHLON 64 4000+? The system
already has 2 gigs of DDR400 ram a decent video card and WD Raptor drives
and I'm updating from a AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ .

Thanks!
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Yes.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us

(CPU support list for the A8V Deluxe)

See also:

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...&modelmen u=1

I don't know whether an X2 3800+ would be better for Photoshop than a 4000+,
but at a guess, as Photoshop supports multiple CPUs, the X2 3800+ probably
will be better.

I'd suggest the X2 4400+, though. You may benefit from the dual 1MB L2
caches as well as the higher CPU frequency. It's more expensive than the X2
3800+, but as you've got some other high-end pieces (e. g., the Raptors),
the 4400+ seems like a more appropriate price/performance point.


Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"Matt" wrote in message
. ..
I have an older Asus A8V Deluxe and I don't really see a listing for it
(and
maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place) on their website. I see A8V and
I'm assuming that the specs would be roughly the same (the website where I
purcased the motherbaord lists it as discontinued, but this may just be
because they don't carry the deluxe version)? Since I'm sort of iffy on
this
I have a couple of questions... can I use a AMD ATHLON 64 X2 3800+ DUAL
CORE
processor in this older motherboard? And would this processor give me
better
overall performance with all other things being equal with apps like
Photoshop, Illustrator etc... over a AMD ATHLON 64 4000+? The system
already has 2 gigs of DDR400 ram a decent video card and WD Raptor drives
and I'm updating from a AMD ATHLON 64 3000+ .

Thanks!
--

"Bob Knowlden" wrote in message
. ..
Yes.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us

(CPU support list for the A8V Deluxe)

See also:

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...&modelmen u=1

I don't know whether an X2 3800+ would be better for Photoshop than a
4000+, but at a guess, as Photoshop supports multiple CPUs, the X2 3800+
probably will be better.

I'd suggest the X2 4400+, though. You may benefit from the dual 1MB L2
caches as well as the higher CPU frequency. It's more expensive than the
X2 3800+, but as you've got some other high-end pieces (e. g., the
Raptors), the 4400+ seems like a more appropriate price/performance point.


thanks for the help.. I actually didn't intend to post this to this forum,
but now I'm glad I did!