WTF!? My mobo now supports AM3????

[mizzou]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2539


WIERD.....I thought this AM2 (not AM2+) board would cripple a AM2+ CPU but now it is telling me it is AM3 capable????? IS THIS TRUE?!!?!?


This HAS to be a typo!!! (takes screen shot for future blackmailing)


Anyone else heard this is possible for an old AM2 board to use AM3 cpus?

 

[Ualdayan]

Yes, AM3 processors work on AM2 motherboards. It doesn't work the other way around though. (AM2 processors on AM3 motherboards)

Here's an article about it:
Interestingly though, AMD is apparently planning to allow end users to not only drop in an AM2+ processor into their AM2 motherboard, but also future 45nm socket AM3 processors too. These processors aren’t scheduled for launch until sometime in the second half of 2008.
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2007/07/20/amd_socket_am3_processors_to_work_in_am2_boards/1

 

[mizzou]

fantastic, thank you!

$EDIT this looks like a good upgrade option for me. I want to get a 2nd ATI 4850 but my socket AM2 athlon x2 5000 is a bottleneck for my fav games at the moment. A nice quad core could change that =)

 

[brandonwh64]

The HT maybe reduced tho

 

[mizzou]

The HT maybe reduced tho

I've heard that makes a negligible performance difference in gaming

although i have found NOTHING on google searching, forum searching, for anyone to give me hard data on what the HT Reduction does to gaming