What is the difference between socket 939 and am2

I just saw the "Athlon X2" and kind of assumed.. I should have done more research and looked up the model number or something though. I'll return it, get my money back, and probably just upgrade her mobo and ram. Thanks everyone for your time and all your replies! Apr 19, 3 0 18, 0. I have Been experiencing this same problem.

The only difference is that I had a feeling that since the is discontinued that some a lot of sites are making this REALLY difficult. I have never seen a AM2 - nor have i seen a I have had this brand new board for years on end. I have read Horrible things about it. I cannot just toss this board out. I figured i could get a nice dual core for cheap since they are now discontinued. Boy was i wrong!

For a bad Boy one you can spend This ECS Board cost Good luck to you and your wife's upgrade. I forgot to do that. Feb 24, 0 18, 2. May 6, 7 0 18, 0. Feb 9, 3, 0 20, 4. Aug 11, 1 19, 8. Oh boy! I get to start another long string of NO's. Have you, by any chance, looked at the pinout on the two chips? Hella beat me,. Assuming its an AM2 single core, yes, will work fine. Otherwise, same story. Google the stepping number, that will tell you what breed it is.

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It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Socket AM2 versus socket Thread starter Lyquist Start date Apr 22, Lyquist 2[H]4U.

Joined Aug 21, Messages 3, I was wondering, are socket AM2 and physically the same? In other words, will a processor fit into an AM2 socket and vice versa? Those expecting big gains point out that the AM2 on-chip memory controller, like the Athlon 64 on-chip DDR controller, should provide much lower latency and higher efficiency than Intel's chipset-based memory controller for DDR2. This is our first opportunity to look more closely at an AM2 DDR2 controller that might answer these questions about memory performance, since it is the first AM2 design to outperform Socket Earlier AM2 spins could not match memory performance, but they continued to improve.

This is remarkable when you consider that new Intel processors pretty much have performed like final shipping processors some 5 months ahead of launch. AMD, on the other hand, has done most of their development work on the DDR2 memory controller in the last 3 months with just 6 weeks remaining before launch.

With just 6 weeks to go before launch, there is not a lot of time for surprises with AM2. All of this leads us to believe that our fourth spin of AM2 this year is very close to what will actually be shipping on June 6th. We can always hope for surprises, but given what AMD has said so far we should be very close to final silicon.