Whats the difference betwee the AM3 board and the AM2 board?

[3DX]

Going to pick up one soon.  The AM2 motherboard is a little cheaper than the AM3 mobo, any significant difference?

[3clips3]

yeah theres a huge difference.  it the difference between DDR2 vs. DDR3 memory. If your building a new system I would go AM3/DDR3. If you already own DDR2 memory and want to reuse it, the AM2+ boards are fine.  But DDR2 is a fading technology. 

[babbies125]

Going to pick up one soon.  The AM2 motherboard is a little cheaper than the AM3 mobo, any significant difference?

Hi according to me AM2 can ONLY run with ddr2 ram and a AM2 motherboard.( AM3 boards use ddr3 ram)
AM3 has BOTH memory controllers on the cpu. So it can work in a AM3 board with DDR3 ram as also in the older AM2+ boards( if there is a BIOS to support them both of course) with DDR2 ram. This will stay the case unless AMD removes the memory DDR2 mem controller from its AM3 cpu
You CAN NOT run a system with a AM2 cpu in a AM3 board.


Thanks!
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