Will this MOBO

[Si7entSam]

ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 DDR3 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

will this Mobo work with the phenom II 940?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: Si7entSam
ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 DDR3 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

will this Mobo work with the phenom II 940?

Of course.

 

[Si7entSam]

it will? this -AMD Phenom II X4 940 Deneb 3.0GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor - Retail will work with this -ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 DDR3 AMD 790GX ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail ?

 

[AstroManLuca]

Yes.

 

[TC91]

I thought you can't put am2+ cpus like the ph II 940 in am3 boards as they don't have the memory controller for ddr3

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: TC91
I thought you can't put am2+ cpus like the ph II 940 in am3 boards as they don't have the memory controller for ddr3

Oh crap, you're right. And here I am, being all confident.

Curse you AMD! Why must you release a new socket every couple months?

http://support.asus.com/cpusup...A78T-E&SLanguage=en-us

So yeah, I believe the brand new AM3 CPUs will work in certain AM2+ boards (as long as those boards list compatibility of course), but not the other way around. An AM3 board will not work with AM2+ processors. Which is pretty bad since the best of the Phenom IIs are not socket AM3 but AM2+.

AM3 motherboards seem like they're only good if you really, desperately want DDR3, which doesn't even help in AMD's case.

 

[Si7entSam]

Okay, good to know haha, DDR3 isn't much better anyway!