please help, socket 940?

[000x]

Hi

I have a socket AM2 940 pin board and AMD 4000+ 939 pin cpu

The board says its compatible with athlon x2/ athlon fx/ athlon 64/ sempron


But I can't seem to get the processor to slip into the socket from any direction.


Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

 

[apt403]

Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

no, it isnt, where did you hear that? AM2 and socket 940 are 2, completly different things, they both have 940 pins, but thats about it, socket 940 is for server boards, AM2 is for everything else, and socket 939 procs arent complatable with either socket. you need a 939 board for a 939 cpu.

 

[000x]

guess i got it confused when they say athlon 64 compatible. there are special athlon 64 processors for the AM2


*noob plunk*

 

[apt403]

guess i got it confused when they say athlon 64 compatible. there are special athlon 64 processors for the AM2

not exactly "special", different number of pins, but there the same cpu's compared to there 939 and 940 brethren.

 

[chocobocorey]

Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

unfortunately the two sockets are not compatible. the only two sockets i know that are pin compatible are socket 478 and 754. its a bit of a tight fit, but it works.

 

[godman]

Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

unfortunately the two sockets are not compatible. the only two sockets i know that are pin compatible are socket 478 and 754. its a bit of a tight fit, but it works.
Oops double post sorry

 

[godman]

Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

unfortunately the two sockets are not compatible. the only two sockets i know that are pin compatible are socket 478 and 754. its a bit of a tight fit, but it works.

Really? So you're saying that a athlon/sempron 64 754 will fit into an intel socket 478 board, right? :?

 

[1Tanker]

Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

unfortunately the two sockets are not compatible. the only two sockets i know that are pin compatible are socket 478 and 754. its a bit of a tight fit, but it works.

Really? So you're saying that a athlon/sempron 64 754 will fit into an intel socket 478 board, right? :?Even if you managed to get it to fit, it wouldn't run. Different voltage specs,pinouts, etc. It's not something i would try. :?

 

[rodney_ws]

What is this guy talking about?

 

[godman]

haha

 

[quantumsheep]

Hi

I have a socket AM2 940 pin board and AMD 4000+ 939 pin cpu

The board says its compatible with athlon x2/ athlon fx/ athlon 64/ sempron


But I can't seem to get the processor to slip into the socket from any direction.


Is there something i'm missing about this? I've tried from matching up the gold triangles but it just won't drop in. Is AM2 really backward compatible with 939?

Oh dear...

Socket AM2 is totally different layout to 939 and as such a CPU from 939 will not work in AM2 and vice versa.

 

[mitch074]

Actually, design-wise s939 and AM2 CPUs are very similar - it's just that since the RAM controller for the former does only DDR1 and the latter does only DDR2, AMD changed the pin layout to prevent fried RAM and processors.

Apart from that, s939 and AM2 mobos are identical apart from the RAM sockets and PCB connections. This similitude may be the source of the mistake.

 

[godman]

Actually, design-wise s939 and AM2 CPUs are very similar - it's just that since the RAM controller for the former does only DDR1 and the latter does only DDR2, AMD changed the pin layout to prevent fried RAM and processors.

Apart from that, s939 and AM2 mobos are identical apart from the RAM sockets and PCB connections. This similitude may be the source of the mistake.

and AM2 has an one extra pin, making it have a total of 940 pins, though due to the layout being different, as you said, it wont work with 939 or socket 940 (though AM2 has 940 pins) 😀