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More info?)
On 7/27/2005 11:42 AM Paul spoke:
> In article <42e74ba2$0$67258$157c6196@dreader2.cybercity.dk>, "MN"
> <willemoesgadeFJERNES@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Does Asus have a socket 754 MB that supports Turion CPU's?
I doubt it, the Turion is for laptops.
It is the mobile 64, I think.
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>>M.N.
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> When searching by "CPU" here, I don't see the Turion listed.
> Maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
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http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
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> There is this thread:
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59500&page=2&pp=25&highlight=turion
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> "Not all motherboards support mobiles. I've heard of people having
> good luck with the DFI, Chaintech VNF3-250, and MSI K8N Neo, but
> not really much about other S754 boards."
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> Asus is not the swiftest when it comes to BIOS updates, and
> that would likely be the limiting factor.
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> The Anandtech article made it sound like the Turion is pretty
> well a standard S754 part, just no heat spreader. Maybe that
> means arranging a heatsink would be a problem. If the comment
> from the xtremesystems thread is true, it sounds like a standard
> motherboard is good enough. But with Asus BIOS, if the processor
> type is not recognized, it probably won't POST for you.
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http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2374
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> Paul