Athlon X2 4850e compatible with older AM2 boards?

[seligman]

I have a new EVGA 590 SLI motherboard that's never been used. Was wondering if the 4850e chip would be equally compatible as all other socket AM2's would be?

This mobo was out of production (and no longer supported by EVGA) when the 4850e was released.

 

[r-sky]

I would say no...

EVGA has no info about the board on their site. Sad they don't update bios to support new CPUs

 

[seligman]

So this would take a new BIOS? I have another EVGA 590 SLI motherboard, currently running with an AM2 5600+.

EVGA really screwed us on this board.

 

[seligman]

By the way, this EVGA 590 mobo I have - it's a rebadged Foxconn C51XEM2AA.

 

[seligman]

bump.

If anybody knows for sure, I'd really appreciate the info ASAP. Lots of good sales this weekend.

 

[sighQ2]

4850E is an energy efficient socket AM2+ cpu. Generally am2+ chips will work in am2 sockets but will use am2 specs = yes it should work but an am2+ board will give higher performance. The hypertransport speed is lower in am2. AM2+ also intro'd some other features.

I don't know that board but there might be a bios upgrade to handle am2+ ??? Some support info should be available or else evga really sux. I imagine if that other one mentioned is working, then this one would too.

re rebadge - try foxconn support for info ???

 

[amdfangirl]

^ No, the 4850e is based on K8 and therefore is an AM2 processor. Basically the 4850e is an overclocked BE-2400, the CPU I have. I reckon if it works with the 'normal' 65nm Athlon X2 it should work with the 4850e.

The 590 SLi does support the 65nm generation, as there was only a die shrink and no major architecture changes were made. My BF has another clone board of that, by a Hong Kong company called Magic Pro. I've tried it with my BE-2400 at one stage so I would guess that your must have support for the 4850e.