New Motherboard and Proccy - suggestions please!

ssb1551

Technomancer
Who said that Phenom II and Athlon II (AM3 Processors) don't work on AM2 or AM2+ motherboards. Yes they work just fine. But the opposite is not true. You cannot plug an AM2/AM2+ CPU into a AM3 socket mobo. This is because AM2/AM2+ socket is based on 940 pin Pin Grid Array whereas AM3 processors are based on 938 pin socket type, hence making it impossible to plug a AM2 processors like Phenom 9850 to an AM3 board.
The motherboard you mentioned, ie. Asus m2a-Vm based on AMD 690G chipset and supports Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs with a Bios update. Check here for the CPU support List of your mobo.
Go for a AMD Athlon II series CPu now. Don't spend much money to Phenom seroes as AMD is going to relaease their new gen processors in the end of 2010.
Wow!!Athlon II X4 can run on AM2/AM2+ MoBo!!Hey I got ASUS M2N-MX SE which is an AM2 MoBo.Will Athlon II X4 635 work on this MoBo if BIOS update is available?
 
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