Can I use a AMD 64 3200+ in a ECS K7S5A?

[Winky]

Need some advice from this forum gurus.

I currently have a Duron 950 CPU in a ECS K7S5A MB. Amazon has a good deal on the AMD Athlon 64 processor 3200+ Socket 939 for $50. Can I just replace the Duron with this new CPU and expect a better performance? I'm not in gaming or any high performance applications.

My system:
K7S5A Socket A AMD Motherboard (not PRO version)
AMD Duron? 950MHz/192K Cache/Socket A/ PGA462/200MHz Front Side Bus

 

[Peter]

Of course you can't. Socket-462 (aka Socket-A) quite obviously does not even physically fit any of the Athlon-64 processors (socket-754, -939, or -AM2).

Best you can put into the K7S5A is the Athlon XP 2400+ (133 MHz bus flavor only!). You're roughly two years late in wanting one. You can take those $50 toward a Duron 1800, which runs on that board too, and happens to be the last available socket-A processor - or you double it and purchase a new board. You may be able to carry your DDR RAM over - but if it's SDR, you can't.