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Elessar
 Post subject: Bone headed move...
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:17 am 
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So I decided to pick up a new CPU over the Christmas break with some of my gift money.

I have THIS motherboard, which supports these CPUs:

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AMD® Socket AM2+ Phenom™ FX / Phenom X4 / Phenom X2 / Athlon™ X2 / Sempron™
AMD Socket AM2 Athlon 64 X2 / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron
AMD Cool'n'Quiet™ Technology
*Support CPU up to 95W


I decided on this CPU AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Quad Core Processor AM2+ 3.0GHZ 8MB Cache 125W 45NM Retail Box based on some good reviews, decent overclocking, good price.

Can anyone spot the problem? hehe. I guess Elessar has learned his lesson to double check compatibility before buying a piece of hardware!
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You should be able to flash the BIOS to get a compatibility update.

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A compatibility upgrade for 30 W more power?

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Well... there is that too.

Heh. I missed that, thought it was that the Phenom II wasn't supported. Didn't look @ power.

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Müs wrote:
Didn't look @ power.


Neither did Elessar :lol:

(I would have totally missed it too.)

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Jeryn
 Post subject: Re: Bone headed move...
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:42 pm 
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Should still work, from what I'm reading.
some Guru3D thread wrote:
Actually the M3A was originally advertised as a 125W board, it wasn't until later that Asus decided to make it one of their "Green" boards that they simply modified it's compatible CPU's list to list only 95 watt TDP and lower chips. It still has the power to support the 125 watt processors.
Other posts say that provided you're running a BIOS revision 1102 or newer for the M3A, it should work. Might just want to poke around and read some to be sure. One post for example said that you shouldn't try to overvolt a 940 on a M3A (not that you would) because the voltage selected by autoconfiguration for the 940 isn't even an available option when manually setting voltage - the autoconfigured voltage fell outside the available range for manual config. Anyway, looks like the prognosis is that it's unsupported, but ought to work.

Edit: I vote just put it on there and see what happens. If you let all the smoke out of the CPU, get a new one :twisted:
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Elessar
 Post subject: Re: Bone headed move...
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:11 pm 
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Jeryn wrote:
Should still work, from what I'm reading.
some Guru3D thread wrote:
Actually the M3A was originally advertised as a 125W board, it wasn't until later that Asus decided to make it one of their "Green" boards that they simply modified it's compatible CPU's list to list only 95 watt TDP and lower chips. It still has the power to support the 125 watt processors.
Other posts say that provided you're running a BIOS revision 1102 or newer for the M3A, it should work. Might just want to poke around and read some to be sure. One post for example said that you shouldn't try to overvolt a 940 on a M3A (not that you would) because the voltage selected by autoconfiguration for the 940 isn't even an available option when manually setting voltage - the autoconfigured voltage fell outside the available range for manual config. Anyway, looks like the prognosis is that it's unsupported, but ought to work.

Edit: I vote just put it on there and see what happens. If you let all the smoke out of the CPU, get a new one :twisted:


Hmm, I dunno sounds kinda risky to try on a $170 CPU heh. I'll poke around I guess, see if anyone else has tried it.
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Well, I did find this thread:

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=92080

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Nope this isn't a thread asking if they work together.

It's one stating that they do. I'm running a Brand new PII 940 Black Edition on my old M3A with an AMD 770 / SB600 chipset using the 1102 Beta Bios and it's running just fine. Even recognizes the processor in the bios and CPU-Z. So anyone with this board that are wondering if they can upgrade to the Phenom II. Go for it, just be sure to get the 1102 Bios before you install it.


but haven't seem to come across much else info.
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I am using that CPU, but with this mobo:

http://asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=PaJTmB4aZ9WAYnM6

I loves it.
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