Would This Be A compatible Board Replacement?

[Bahdumtshw]

As referenced in another thread, I'm having issues with an Emachines T6216. Upon inspection of the processor, it appears that its an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with model number ADA3200DAA4BW and of socket type 939. From a quick Amazon search, I've landed on this motherboard as a possible replacement.

The only thing that I'm aware of worrying about is a possible necessity for an official Windows install and an ide to sata converter since the master drive is an ide one.

Would this board work and also, is there something I'm missing to be concerned about?

[Uranium-235]

Re: Would This Be A compatible Board Replacement?

'fraid not. all those emachines are microatx, if you don't want it to fit in the case, and get another case, then sure, but keep in mind you might end up with the same problem, a desoldered nvidia chip

the only advantage that might give you is you should be able to boot the hard drive right off it since its an nvidia chipset like the old board. I would go with something microatx, via chipset if you want it to fit in the case, cause a lot of those emachine cases do fit standard microatx boards

edit: oh yeah that A8N-E has two ide ports. I know, I have one, one foot right infront of me (swapping it out with a dual-opteron MSI board). and somewhere in this forum a few posts down is something the A8N-E too I started up in another thread that got split

[Uranium-235]

Re: Would This Be A compatible Board Replacement?

look for an A8V-VM

or better yet, tell your friend you can build him something awesome with a Athlon II X2, msi/gigabyte motherboard, and a fairly good powersupply, should even fit in that emachines case

and DDR3. DDR3 is cheap