Sockets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sparkle_ftw]

How much will my performance suffer if I use a cpu that is am3, in am2+ board? Somebody told me the L3 would max out at 2 mb on am2+

 

[xaira]

then that person is retarded, you will not use any performance, if you buy a cpu with 6mb l3, then all 6 megs will be available, with am2+ boards, the only thing that changes is that you use ddr2 instead of ddr3, in the case of an am2 board that extends support for am3, then you will be limited to 2000mt/s on the hyper transport, either way there will be no significant decrease of performance.

 

[sparkle_ftw]

Thank you! Somebody agree with him so I feel safe.

 

[Upendra09]

^+1 Go with Xaira he knows what he is talking about, he is one of those forum geniuses here

 

[loneninja]

You won't loose any performance on the cpu itself, you just loose out on the memory performance. DDR2 is slower than DDR3, but from the testing results I've seen it's under a 5% performance difference. It's nothing noticable unless your worried about benchmark scores.

 

[smithereen]

Slight cap on the Hypertransport too. But nothing to worry about, nothing you'll notice. Pop a 3% OC onto it and you'll outperform the same CPU on an AM3 board, if you need to raise your computer's self-esteem.

 

[sparkle_ftw]

OK, but, do am3's fit am2/am2+ boards? Because some same am2+/am3, but I thought that just meant the BIOS was compatible.

 

[smithereen]

Yes, it does.