Hi, Could anyone help me with regards to finding out what processor to buy. My motherboard name is MSI Amethyst-M and I want my computer to go faster so that i can run multiple applications for example football manager. I bought some ram that has only made certain applications on my computer to run smoother. and now i have been told the next step is to buy a new processor. Here is the info of my motherboard Board: MSI AMETHYST-M 1.0 Bus Clock: 200 megahertz BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.18 06/09/2005 and Processor 1.80 gigahertz AMD Sempron 256 kilobyte primary memory cache 256 kilobyte secondary memory cache 64-bit ready Not hyper-threaded If there is anything else that you need to know please let me know Cheers Matt

Please ignore the manafacturer model for some reason a notebook model has come up my actual model is HP Pavilion 061 EC464AA-ABU a1108.uk 0nx0211RE101AMETM00

All you had to do was go to the HP site & look it up. Here's what it states: "Socket: 939 Supports AMD Athlon 64 X2 (up to 4800+) and Sempron (up to 3200+) processors" http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... Hopefully the RAM you bought is DDR400 & not DDR333. HP tended to install DDR333, presumably because it was cheaper at the time of assembly. You take a performance hit because of it though. BTW, here's a copy of the motherboard manaul: http://217.110.237.67/Manuals/7184-...

Hi Jam, Thanks for the reply, just a quick one really, what prosessor do you recomend i buy then and how much is this going to set me back. Cheers Matt

Socket 939 was obsoletent 2++ years ago, you need to search around... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket... http://computers.shop.ebay.co.uk/CP...

"I bought some ram that has only made certain applications on my computer to run smoother" How much RAM did you buy? 1GB should be considered the minimum these days, 2GB would be even better. DDR400 is fairly expensive though...about $60 for 2 x 1GB unless you can find it on sale. S939 CPU's aren't cheap either, especially the dual core X2. And if you're still using the onboard video, a cheap PCI-e x16 would be a good idea. But that would bring the total up to about $150 +/-