**Official DFI LanParty UT 790FX-M2R Review/Overclock/Guide Thread**

[keithlm]

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.

[Brother Esau]

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.

If its the same socket it (should) work. should being the operative word here