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JJW009
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Gives "Firmware upgrade" a new meaning - I'm pretty sure it would fit if you were firm enough with it; maybe with a hammer  _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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| Thu May 21, 2009 11:36 pm |
 
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pcernie
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That's what I don't know for certain, but you have to wonder when it'll take certain X2s, and I was amazed to find my own £35 board that only previously went up to a C2D then had new firmware that enabled quad-core. _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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| Thu May 21, 2009 11:37 pm |
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vdbswong
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 Afraid not.
Socket 939 is completely different from Socket AM2.
The former is a 939 pin socket which was in the second generation of Athlon 64s (after socket 754, the inital socket and socket 940 which was reserved for Opterons and early Athlon 64 FX's) which were allowed Dual Channel RAM support for "mainstream" Athlon 64s, also these CPUs support DDR "1".
The former is another 940 pin socket (not compatible with the original socket 940) which is designed for the later generation of Athlon 64s which support Dual Channel as well as solely using DDR2.
They aren't compatible at all... ever. The only exception i've seen is an obscure Asrock board which was a Socket 939 or AM2 board which had a riser card which further supported the other socket. I don't believe it caught on.
What i believe you two are thinking of is the newer AM2, AM2+ and AM3 sockets.
The former is described above, AM2+ (Phenom's) is uses a newer Hypertransport bus or something like that and there is no difference in sockets and is backwards compatible. AM3 on the otherhand is for DDR3 support, the socket is similar but since the mem. controller is integrated on Athlon 64s AM2 (or AM2+) CPUs won't work in AM3 boards. However AM3 CPUs also integrate a mem. controller for DDR2 so that they can be used in AM2+ boards. Not sure about them in older AM2 only boards though.
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ethelredalready
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I've just upgraded my old system to an AM2 one, with a new very cheap AM2 mobo, CPU, and DDR2 RAM. I now have a DFI Lanparty Mobo and dual core 939 CPU and RAM etc sitting doing nothing. No guarantees, but if anybody's interested I'll happily part with it.
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vdbswong
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Out of interest (not because i can actually justify buying a socket 939 mobo), which Lanparty version is it ?
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