Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
Are you sure that the pinout is different? Can be those pins used for the additional external HT links are imply unused.

EDIT: Nevermind, they aint pin compatible cuz they use ddr vs ddr2 memory (obvious after all). They still can be pin compatible for the non memory related pins however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_940
i just tried putting a socket 940 cpu in an am2 socket. doesnt fit. close but nope.