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Thanks. Strange that stuff like that doesn't come up on google for me. =( Anyway, hope my friend can find a use for it.

So I have a Turion II in a socket S1g4. It's a single-core processor. I got a Turion x2 ultra from a friend, it's a dual-core processor. The problem is that while the sockets are mechanically the same, will the S1g2 processor work in a motherboard with DDR3 memory and a S1g4 socket? I suspect...

OK, that pretty much answers my question. Thanks again for the quick and informative replies!

Thanks, I'm amazed at the speed of the replies. Does the motherboard need to have the active switching capability like the gigabyte mobo mentioned in the first post? Or does it work that I select which graphics I use from BIOS or control panel? The gigabyte motherboard has active switching, but...

I'm planning to use a z68 motherboard, the GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD4 with an i7-2700k. Can I use the integrated graphics at the start, then switch to discrete graphics later? I'm not concerned with the power of the integrated graphics, I just need to know if I can run the system sans discrete cards. If...