Anybody know if the DFI 790FX-M2R will work with a cheap $32.00 Sempron? The 790FX boards from other companies say they work with a Sempron... but DFI doesn't say anything. (But they don't say anything about using 1066 memory either.)

I'm considering ordering one of these as an "emergency" backup CPU. "Just in case". If I get my Motherboard back next week and the Phenom I have ends up being what my problem was... then I'd have to wait for that to RMA. In the meanwhile I could get a 2.0 Ghz Sempron for $32.00 and get it at about the same time that the motherboard comes back.

If the phenom works okay (which is my HOPE) then I would have wasted $32.00. On the OTHER hand if the problem IS the phenom... then the $32.00 would pay for itself immediately. (Since I wouldn't have to replace my old motherboard/cpu/memory yet again.)

So it would be kind of like "insurance". If I order it... then the laws of nature would say that it will be un-needed. :-)

PLUS as a bonus... I can use the Sempron with a small cheap motherboard and some cheap ram for building a multimedia server.