Help me please-AMD PROCESSOR

[aneurysm]

hi..i want to know whether processor AM2+ can be use or not with motherboard AM2...thats all..thanks for help


-the processor is AMD Athlon 64 X2 7850 Black Edition Dual Core Processor and the motherboard is like below:



1.1.2 KN9 Ultra
CPU
Supports Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2GHz system bus using Hyper Transport™ Technology
Supports AMD CPU Cool ‘n’ Quiet Technology
Chipset
NVIDIA® nForce 570 Ultra
Memory
4x 240-pin DIMM slots supports memory capacity up to 8GB
Supports Dual Channel DDR2 800 Un-buffered ECC/Non-ECC memory
Serial ATA
6x SATA 3Gb/s
Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5
IEEE 1394a
Supports 2 Ports IEEE 1394a at 400Mb/s transfer rate
LAN
Dual NV Gigabit LAN
Audio
Onboard 7.1-Channel HD Audio CODEC
Supports auto jack sensing
Expansion Slots
1x PCI-E X16 slot
3x PCI-E X1 slots
2x PCI slots
Internal I/O
1x Floppy port
1x UDMA 133/100/66/33 IDE connector
6x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
3x USB 2.0 headers
2x IEEE 1394a headers
Rear Panel I/O
1x PS/2 Keyboard connector
1x PS/2 Mouse connector
1x S/PDIF Out connector
1x Audio Connector (Surround-Left / Surround-Right, Rear-Left / Rear-Right, Center / Subwoofer, Mic-In, Line-In, Line-Out)
2x RJ-45 LAN ports
4x USB 2.0 ports
ABIT Engineered
SoftMenu™ Technology
Silent OTES™ Technology
Miscellaneous
ATX form factor (305mm x 245mm)

 

[flyinfinni]

Yes an AM2+ Processor will run in an AM2 board.

 

[C00lIT]

Unfortunately Abit doesn't seem to care about updating their bios or even website

http://www.abit.com.tw/cpu-support-list/mb/nv_nforce570ultra_kn9-ultra.htm

Doesn't look like it... wich is unfortunate as the same chipset on Asus motherboards go up to Phenom9950 and some have ran phenom2's (unsupported tho)

 

[flyinfinni]

I guess I should have looked up the board itself, but in general AM2+ and AM2 are compatible.

 

[aneurysm]

ok..emm how about the performance of the processor when it use on AM2 motherboard?i heard that the AM2+ processor will not perform well when it use on AM2 motherboard..i read it at wikipedia(AMD athlon 64 x 2)..can anyone comment about this becasuse i'm bit confusing..thanks again..

 

[aneurysm]

oooo... i see it...thanks c00lit...great

 

[Mousemonkey]

Unfortunately Abit doesn't seem to care about updating their bios or even website

That's because the motherboard division of Abit ceased trading some time ago.

 

[C00lIT]

Quite a shame, They used to make great motherboards... well... last abit I had was with the Pentium2 Cpu's

ok..emm how about the performance of the processor when it use on AM2 motherboard?i heard that the AM2+ processor will not perform well when it use on AM2 motherboard..i read it at wikipedia(AMD athlon 64 x 2)..can anyone comment about this becasuse i'm bit confusing..thanks again..

I ran a Phenom9950 on an AM2 motherboard then swapped my mobo for an AM3... didn't really see much gain in performance... just gain in support options such as unlocked multiplier.

Your best bet is to find an AthlonX2 6000... They outperform the Athlon7XXX series as they were bad original phenoms to my knowledge.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Quite a shame, They used to make great motherboards... well... last abit I had was with the Pentium2 Cpu's

I'm still using two of theirs and still love the way that the 680i one flies in the face of the Nvidia chipset haters.

 

[Karl Kitching]

I have a Athlon 6000+ 3GHz for sale