ChEnChEn Posted June 6, 2011 Member ID: 863 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 45 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 317 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 21 Achievement Points: 2068 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2022 Birthday: 07/26/1995 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Okay as some of you may know, my main gaming computer fried.. I've been using a crappy laptop lately. I've almost got all the pieces I need to get it running again... I've managed to get ahold of a somewhat old ASUS motherboard. It has an AM2+ processor slot on it. I am wondering if I need to go purchase an AM2+ Quad Core cpu specifically (Which i cant find in stock anywhere) or can I purchase a AM3 CPU? I read somewhere the AM3 can be used in an AM2 slot, but not the other way around, but I want to fully know before purchasing anything, waiting a week for it to be delivered and then finding it not working. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutcutter Posted June 6, 2011 Member ID: 1540 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 13 Topic Count: 40 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 856 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 4812 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/28/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 6, 2017 Birthday: 09/20/1969 Share Posted June 6, 2011 This is what I read but I still think it is motherboard specific in the bios I would look up the CPU support for your board on the ASUS web site AM3 processors work on AM2+ motherboards due to the presence of both the DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers on the processor AM2+ processors do not work on AM3 motherboards due to the processor's lack of a DDR3 memory controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-RayXI Posted June 6, 2011 Member ID: 133 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 77 Topic Count: 602 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 6888 Content Per Day: 1.28 Reputation: 1371 Achievement Points: 44109 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 12/12/1971 Device: Windows Share Posted June 6, 2011 Nutcutter This is what I read but I still think it is motherboard specific in the bios I would look up the CPU support for your board on the ASUS web site AM3 processors work on AM2+ motherboards due to the presence of both the DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers on the processor AM2+ processors do not work on AM3 motherboards due to the processor's lack of a DDR3 memory controller Hell yeah! Asus supplies on the website what the motherboard can handle and with what BIOS. Do a CPU-Z dump Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
ChEnChEn Posted June 6, 2011 Member ID: 863 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 45 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 317 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 21 Achievement Points: 2068 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 15, 2022 Birthday: 07/26/1995 Author Share Posted June 6, 2011 k thx guys. i should be able to purchase mine this week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobodygood>XI< Posted June 8, 2011 Member ID: 219 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 492 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 108 Achievement Points: 2906 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 2, 2018 Birthday: 04/28/1957 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I run a AM3 1090T in a AM2+ board, I would make sure you update the bios to the latest version first if you can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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