AM2 and regular DDR?

[dan420]

Well i am looking at getting a 4600 x2 here very shortly, i have an asrock dualsata2 board so i can get the AM2 cpu card for it and go with a AM2, but am i required to use DDR2 with AM2? or can i use my current DDR, since i have 2gb of DDR at the moment i don't really want to get rid of it and get DDR2 just yet, cant afford to do that at this time. Otherwise ille just have to get a S939 4600 x2.

 

[IceBlue666]

939=DDR
AM2=DDR2
All K8 Cpu's have their memory controller on die. So if you go AM2 you have to go DDR2 also. There is no way around that sorry.

 

[dan420]

I guess i will just go with the 939 then until the quad core processors arrive.

 

[IceBlue666]

well yeah you have tp go 939 sorry
I checked the am2 cpu upgrade card and it doesnt work with ddr1 only with ddr2. And about quad core. I don't think it's worth it .Software isn't really optimised for that. Your x2 shoul last you at least a year before bottlenecking

 

[dasickninja]

Even if we are able to use DDR with AM2 or beyond, the user will be taking a large performance hit.