Processor Upgrade for the P4MSD-800 D2 Motherboard

[Scinadier]

Hello,
I've had the Mach Speed P4MSD-800D2 motherboard for a while now. Ever since I bought the motherboard it's been using a 3.2ghz Pentium D processor. Unfortunately the Pentium D no longer is good enough to play the games that I hope play to in the future.

On the back of the motherboard box, it says that the motherboard "Supports Dual Core CPU." The specs of the motherboard listed on various websites continue to state that it "Supports Dual Core CPU," but when the specific types of supported processors are listed, the Intel Core 2 Duo is never listed.

So my question is: Is the P4MSD-800D2 Motherboard able to use the Intel Core 2 Duo processors?

More specifically, can it run the Processor listed in the following link?

Newegg.com - Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Wolfdale 2.53GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors

Thanks for the help,
Sci

 

[peterhuang913]

No, it won't.

Dual core on the box means Pentium D.


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[Scinadier]

Oh okay. Thanks for the help and thanks for the quick reply! It looks like I'm going to be needing a new computer.

 

[Redmo0n]

you can get a dual core.

E2 series

 

[blackhawk13]

The best Dual Core processor I could find on Newegg was this...

Newegg.com - Intel Pentium E2220 Allendale 2.4GHz 1MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors

I'm not too sure if it will work with that mobo though. As the website for it doesn't say anything about "Dual Core" support.

 

[peterhuang913]

It will not work!

 

[Redmo0n]

I meant to say pentium D.

 

[blackhawk13]

I looked around on Newegg and can't seem to find a processor that will work with that mobo, and is faster than the one he already has.

Either a motherboard upgrade is needed, or you're SOL.