Is my motherboard compatible with Phenom II ?

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Markfw

Markfw

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We have had many threads on this same subject. The answer is simple, please go to your motherboard manufacturer's website. Find your motherboard, and either in the CPU support section, or the bios updates notes section, it will tell you. It either will, will not, or will only after a bios upgrade to version xxxxx.

Please do this first, nobody here can answer your questions better than this.

Read the motherboard mfg sites first.

Here are a few links:

ASUS CPU support

Giabyte support list

EVGA support

Biostar

Request more and I can look them up

Confirmed to work (see below) BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2
 
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Idontcare

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mark, a suggestion if I may, how about if we request people who own Phenom II and an AM2/AM2+ mobo (and ONLY people who actually have the hardware in hand) post to this thread with their confirmation of whether the combo works or does not work with the latest and greatest BIOS of course?

No posts would be allowed in which the poster is merely requesting confirmation of a particular mobo/bios...this would need to be strictly enforced to keep the thread's signal high and the noise low.

Only posts with known winning or known losing combo's would be allowed. This would be my suggestion.
 
Markfw

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Yup, sounds like a plan to me !

With hundreds of motherboards, its not practical to research and post them all here. Also, mother mfg at times may actually think they work, when in practice they may not. But MOST of the time they are correct.

 
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Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: Wartzay
BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813138128
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/...roduction.php?S_ID=374

Confirmed to work perfectly (as far as I can tell) with the PII x4 940
Click to expand...

No bios update ? The way it came from newegg ? I am considering playing with one.
Click to expand...

Yup, it's worked out of the box for me.

Edit:Several people on the newegg reviews claimed that apparently there is a BIOS update out for it to fix BSOD problems some people have been having (which I havent had)

I can't find a link to it though.

Edit2: found it, though its a dodgy looking site.
http://www.lejabeach.com/Biostar/TA790GX/
 
Denithor

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I really wish Newegg would put another search feature in to filter boards by PhII support...
 
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A word of warning about Gigabyte's MA790X-DS4 and Phenom II support. Some of Gigabyte's CPU support lists (like the one linked below) show BIOS F5 as being required for PhII support, but that's incorrect. BIOS F6 is actually needed, the two 790X-DS4s I've tried will not even POST with F5 and a PhII. One of them is only two days old and came with F5 onboard, so an older AM2 chip is needed to flash them for PhII compatibility.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Fil...ech_081225_am3bios.htm
 
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pennylane

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Originally posted by: Wartzay
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: Wartzay
BIOSTAR TFORCE TA790GX A2+ AM2+/AM2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813138128
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/...roduction.php?S_ID=374

Confirmed to work perfectly (as far as I can tell) with the PII x4 940
Click to expand...

No bios update ? The way it came from newegg ? I am considering playing with one.
Click to expand...

Yup, it's worked out of the box for me.

Edit:Several people on the newegg reviews claimed that apparently there is a BIOS update out for it to fix BSOD problems some people have been having (which I havent had)

I can't find a link to it though.

Edit2: found it, though its a dodgy looking site.
http://www.lejabeach.com/Biostar/TA790GX/
Click to expand...

Well, according to a newegg review, the correct BIOS is: 78DBAB113, which is different from that website by a letter B... not sure what that means. I've emailed Biostar about teh BIOS. Maybe they'll send it to me.

One reviewer also says:
Anyway, here's the problem the bios update sets the CPU voltage to 1.1something, while phenom II's are sopposed be functioning at 1.35. Just go to overvoltage in the Bios and set it to + 0.215V and you should be at about 1.344V. After that all windows XP asked me to do is to activate...for some reason...and now we're up and running. I hope this helps.
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So, I'd also check that. I'm hoping to build a Phenom II 920 rig with this mobo this weekend. I'll post back.
 
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For those of you on AM2+ mobos with up to 95W TDP quad support - these can still very likely run the incoming Feb 09 95W TDP AM3 Deneb/Heka and Propus/Rana cores later :p Correspondencce with Palit regarding thheir 95W TDP only Agena/Toliman core 780G :p
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mick6116

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Originally posted by: DrBombcrater
A word of warning about Gigabyte's MA790X-DS4 and Phenom II support. Some of Gigabyte's CPU support lists (like the one linked below) show BIOS F5 as being required for PhII support, but that's incorrect. BIOS F6 is actually needed, the two 790X-DS4s I've tried will not even POST with F5 and a PhII. One of them is only two days old and came with F5 onboard, so an older AM2 chip is needed to flash them for PhII compatibility.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Fil...ech_081225_am3bios.htm
Click to expand...

This explains the problems I've been having all afternoon trying to get my new build to work.

Grrrr. Is there anything I can do apart from return the board to the supplier or buy an old cpu to get the flash update on?
 
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i think this is true
With hundreds of motherboards, its not practical to research and post them all here. Also, mother mfg at times may actually think they work, when in practice they may not. But MOST of the time they are correct.
 
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pennylane

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Well I got my Phenom II 920 to work with (seemingly) no problems on the Biostar TA790GX. I got the BIOS from Biostar. The correct BIOS is 78DBA113.BST . Updating the BIOS was a snap.
 
Markfw

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Well, I can say that my new MSI K9A2 Platinum is installing windows on the bios that came with it. At 3.8 ghz no less. Will Try for 4 later.
 
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jmadams

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I'd have to say no for Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe. I can boot into windows only if I take out two of four dimms and I had some other random problems. Although I've heard many people with the same issues, some have reported that it works fine. If you like experimenting, I say give it a try. If you're like me, and want to plug and play, don't do it until a BIOS update is available. But from what evidence I can gather, Asus is doing no BIOS updates for any AM2 based boards to support Phenom II.

John
 
theAnimal

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I think having a copy of this sticky in the Motherboards section would be a good idea.
 
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Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H rev1.0, F7 bios

Works, but I'm cautious:

PII X4 940 is working fine so far at stock. Stress testing with OCCT just to check for temps. I'm kind of afraid to overclock it much though because of the 125W TDP (and previous non-support of 125W Phenom I CPUs).

Note: this is the board with the crazy NB temp readings. With the PII running the NB at 1.8 GHz up from 1.0 GHz with an X2, the temps are soaring!
 
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BaneSilvermoon

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PII X4 940 running well with a ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe here. Required a BIOS update that released a couple weeks before the new chips.

(on a side note my 4 sticks of 1066 run wonderfully on it as well despite what the manual says heh)
 
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PII X3 720 and M3A78-EM. Works either with bios 701, 1103, or 1502. For other bioses in between, need to disable C1E support.

Realtek audio drivers from 12/31/08 to 2/06/09 appear to be unstable.
 
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Rhoxed

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MSI K9A2 Platinum works fine with bios 1.6
Foxconn A79A-S works fine with newest bios
 
alexruiz

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Originally posted by: ultimahwhat
Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H rev1.0, F7 bios

Works, but I'm cautious:

PII X4 940 is working fine so far at stock. Stress testing with OCCT just to check for temps. I'm kind of afraid to overclock it much though because of the 125W TDP (and previous non-support of 125W Phenom I CPUs).

Note: this is the board with the crazy NB temp readings. With the PII running the NB at 1.8 GHz up from 1.0 GHz with an X2, the temps are soaring!
Click to expand...


Thanks! This is the motherboard I got. Now I see I can upgrade it :)
 
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Burticus

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EVGA 730a supports Phenom II with the E113_Z13 bios. The Z12 bios will boot but doesn't list the clock speed correctly.
 
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