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Hi all, nice forums you have here. I think Ill stay a while. Anyway, I have a ms-7327 and was wondering if it will support an AMD Phenom quad core.. I went to AMD and my board has socket AM2(940). I am currently running AMD athlon64x2. I looked at a couple Phenoms and it says am2+. Does the + mean I cant run one?


Message edited by madpirahna on 11-30-2008 at 06:52:00 AM
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Yes. = Your board will support a Phenom.

BUT - you won't get all of it.

I forget all the details - but you won't get the improved HT3 speed (hypertransport). AM2 supports HT2.

= I found this.
"Socket AM2+ is a CPU socket, which is the immediate successor to Socket AM2 that is currently used in several AMD processors such as Athlon 64 X2. Socket AM2+ is a mid-migration from Socket AM2 to Socket AM3 and is fully compatible with Socket AM2, so processors designed for Socket AM2 will work on Socket AM2+ motherboards and vice versa.

Socket AM2+ has some differences however that will be used in AM2+ chips, there are two main features in Socket AM2+ not in Socket AM2:

* HyperTransport 3.0 operating at up to 2.6 GHz
* Split power planes: one for the CPU cores, and the other for the Integrated Memory controller (IMC). This will improve power savings, especially with integrated graphics, if the CPU cores are in sleep mode but the IMC is still active.

AMD confirmed that AM2 processors will work in AM2+ motherboards and AM2+ processors will work on AM2 motherboards. However, due to the lack of support of HyperTransport 3.0 and separated power planes in Socket AM2 motherboards, AM2+ chips will be limited to the specifications of Socket AM2 (HyperTransport 2.0 at the speed of 1 GHz, one power plane for both Cores and IMC). AM2 chips will not benefit from faster HyperTransport and separated power planes on AM2+ motherboards as they do not support them, AM2+ motherboard then fall back to compatibility mode using AM2 specifications.

According to confirmations from AMD, Socket AM2+ will have a compatibility path with Socket AM3, AM3 processors will work in AM2+ motherboards; however, AM2+ processors will not be compatible with AM3 motherboards."

= It will work. But better performance if you get an AM2+ mobo.
= recommend MSI or Giga or DFI mobos
link - lots of nice features on "790GX/SB750 chipset"
(here)
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Product [...] uctID=2887

ALSO = these mobos and other AM2+ will support AM3 cpu's = "PhenomII" cpu's through a mere BIOS upgrade

Of interest re PhenomII
http://www.amdzone.com/phpbb3/view [...] 2&t=135816
shows demos of new PhenomII oclox results of AMD's demo

SUMMARY
= you really do want an AM2+ motherboard
= do the homework and you will see what you get with
AM2+ and 790gx/sb750

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Awesome, thanks for all that. Looking some stuff up now.

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