Upgrading mother board

[georgess]

Hi all, not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I have 2 questions:
I currently have the Gigabyte H61M-S2PV mother board and recently installed the AMD FX8350 CPU. I have a feeling that this mother board doesn't support this CPU.

Also, more importantly, I want to upgrade to a better Gigabyte mother board, will I have to re-install all my software on the PC if I do this?

I am in no way a PC Tech and completely useless when it comes to this kind of thing. I am a CGI artist and need more power. I will be upgrading my Nvidia graphics card too.

Help :-)

[dmdilks]

First of all that board you put up is a intel board and that CPU is AMD sorry.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4065#ov

With that CPU you can use these boards GA-990FXA-UD3, UD5, & UD7. The thing is on those board too. You have to make sure the bios is up to date to support that CPU. Or the Version board you are getting.

Plus one other thing is that you can try to just boot up on the OS. But more likely it will BSOD on you. That it a 50/50 thing that windows will boot.