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Message: [QUOTE="mg89, post: 1125728, member: 67795"] I have a amd athlon 1700 that runs at 1.4ghz. My computer is around 5 years old and I want to upgrade the microprocessor. I'm looking towards a amd athlon 64 3200+ with 2.0ghz. I don't know much about computers, so can I switch my current cpu with a newer one, or would I have to get a newer motherboard aswell? If I could just switch the cpu, how would I do that? thanks (sorry if some of these questions are answerable with common sense) [/QUOTE]