*WARNING* Just to let anyone know who is thinking of buying one of these to upgrade an existing AM2 system.... "The Phenom is a Socket AM2+ chip, but it will work on current Socket AM2 motherboards. The backward compatibility support will allow current Socket AM2 Athlon 64 owners to upgrade to a Phenom processor without having to buy a new motherboard, but they might have to update the motherboard BIOS." Check out this article on Toms Hardware. http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/26/phenom_motherboards/ So barely any boards will support it as the manufacturers havent released the BIOS updates. Looks like a pretty nice processor but best wait a while before getting one
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