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Has anyone run an AM3 chip in an AM2+/AM3 board?
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Has anyone run an AM3 chip in an AM2+/AM3 board?
Looking at all the Phenom II AM3 955, 965 overclocks, it seems pretty much everyone is running them on AM3 motherboards with DDR3.
__________________I'm considering getting one of those new 965 C3 steppings when they come out, but I have an AM2+/AM3 motherboard: Gigabyte MA790GP-UD4H. The latest bios does support the 965, and I do have 1066 DDR2 RAM... so I'm wondering if there's anything I need to worry about? If anyone runs this setup, AM3 chip in a non-AM3 board, please chime in! Thx 
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you should be fine. As long as the boards latest bios supports it then you should be good to go.
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First your mobo can support 965(update your bios).
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No worries, my board is AM2+/AM3. And as soon as I popped my 955 it saw it.
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Proposed wooden tower build AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.6  AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.8 Hitting 3.8 was easy, getting a stable 4.0 ghz, that will be a challenge! Quote:
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Im running my 955 in a AM2+ board quite fine
on first post the quad was at 800mhz - flashed to the latest bios nad 3.2ghz was there
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Sweeeeet. Now I'm wondering what's the deal with DDR3 vs DDR2? The DDR3 is larger bandwidth so wouldn't it mean higher performance? OR is it that DDR2 is plenty enough already and more doesn't make a difference?
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You will get 2-5% better performance on ddr3 over ddr2.
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DDR3 has slightly higher bandwidth
DDR2 is cheaper and you can get more for the price up to you basically ^^ Unless you have my ram.....ddr2 @ 1300mhz cas 5 
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thats was the speed i got on my Asus P5E board (Q6600 + X38)
I havent tried them yet on my PhII - been pre-occupied with exams (and at least until monday i will also be...) although i might as well try now.....if i get time later on..... and i never said stabily (although from memory i think it was memtest stable @ 1300 but not 1333)
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