MSI 790FX-GD70 support athlon 64x2?

[Tattare]

will a MSI 790FX-GD70 run a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ Windsor 3.2GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core Processor?

broke my current motherboard and need to replace it. Will upgrade to a Phenom II X4 later on.

Thanks.

 

[lopri]

No. AM2/AM2+ boards support AM3 CPUs, but not the other way around. AM3 boards only supports AM3 CPUs. Reason is simple - AM3 boards have DDR3 slots, and AM2/AM2+ CPUs do not contain DDR3 controller. You may want to look for an AM2+ board which is the most flexible of the three (AM2, AM2+, AM3).