I posted this in a couple of other forums but for those of you who do not visit those I have some good news and some bad news.

The bad news is I no longer have the (ES) chip as I sold it off to someone else so I could get a Retail chip to see if it was pretty much the same. Why do I say that is bad news............well.....it was not a Phenom II 940 BE (ES) AM2+ chip......it was a Phenom II 945 BE (ES) AM3 chip. I just confirmed it today when I took a look at the pins on the AM2+ version and they are different. There are other things that have caused a suspicion as well, but this actually sealed the deal.

Anyway some one is going to have some fun if they can get them an AM3 MB and some good DDR3.