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I've always liked my SN95G5 but it has always had a cold boot problem (have to pull the power out to make it start up after a shutdown). I discovered this may be a problem with the Athlon64 3500+ processor being incompatible with the motherboard (which appears to be FN95 v2.0 BOM 21). It's not a power draw issue (I know because I even tried a big external PSU).

I have swapped the graphics card fairly recently - the AGP slot and small PSU rather restrict your options but for what it's worth, the following works well: ASUS N7600GS SILENT/HTD/256M - it's a silent 256Mb GeForce 7600GS card.

But now I want to replace the CPU.

It says here http://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-Shuttle/SN95G5_%28FN95_V2.
0%29.html that I can put in an Athlon64 x2 4800+. Shuttle say so too, with some rather incomplete footnotes: http://global.shuttle.com/support_list03.jsp?PI=836. These guys make me less confident however: http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/8668
7/#743821.

Has anyone tried an Athlon64 x2 4800+ in one of these - or something similar?

Thanks

Alan