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If I put Athlon II X2 240 (Socket AM3)in ASUS's M3A78-EM (Socket AM2 /AM) will that match ? Please help. Thanks in advance.

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It should work fine.

------------------------------ CPU: PhenomII X4 955 BE ; RAM: 8GiB
OS: BSD, Linux, Solaris & Windows (use VirtualBox)
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It should work. Its not on that motherboard's cpu support list (see link), but all the Phenom II's are on there so you shouldnt have a problem. Be sure to update to the latest bios.

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=KjpYqzmAd9vsTM2D


Message edited by bige420 on 11-07-2009 at 05:36:23 PM
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