Quote Originally Posted by BrowncoatGR View Post
Quite the contrary. While you could call AM2(+/3) all the same socket as all boards designed for AM2 with a big enough Bios chip can run all newer cpus physically(provided the m/b vendor provides bios support). In contrast you can divide socket 775 to at least 2 sockets. The pre-conroe socket and the post-conroe socket. Also iirc early boards couldnt be upgraded with dualcores.
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