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Can I still use this ?¿

I have an old asus A8N-SLI premium socket 939 motherboard. I've read a lot about it and still a great motherboard. I was wondering if I can still use it for a gaming build. And what graphics card that I can use in it. I currently have an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ in it. Don't really have a lot of money to do a complete build. But if I can make use if what I still have that would be great. Don't really care if my games look good or not. More concerned on frames

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Severe bottlenecking will be happening with any higher end modern GPU. I wouldn't go any higher then a 260x/750Ti.

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of course you could use it, but you definitely shouldn't. 

      

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I have an old asus A8N-SLI premium socket 939 motherboard. I've read a lot about it and still a great motherboard. I was wondering if I can still use it for a gaming build. And what graphics card that I can use in it. I currently have an AMD Athlon X2 3800+ in it. Don't really have a lot of money to do a complete build. But if I can make use if what I still have that would be great. Don't really care if my games look good or not. More concerned on frames

o my days that is an epic board!  :). if you overclock the cpu and pair it with a 9800gt then you can run. it has to have gddr3 memory though because the 939 boards don't support gddr5 gpu's.

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Well I was thinking of getting an Athlon X2 4800+ OC. And get geforce 9800 GT.

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