Asus released a new BIOS for many of their M2N series board which are basically discontinued. I'm still using a M2N-SLi and that fastest processor for that board was the first generation Phenoms. Now this board can accept a Phenom IIx4 945. I can assume this only came about because many people have experimented with processors not originally supported by this board. (overclock.net)
On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:04:15 -0500, kitekrazy <> wrote: > Asus released a new BIOS for many of their M2N series board which are > basically discontinued. I'm still using a M2N-SLi and that fastest > processor for that board was the first generation Phenoms. Now this > board can accept a Phenom IIx4 945. > I can assume this only came about because many people have > experimented with processors not originally supported by this board. > (overclock.net) Interesting; my desktop mobo is the M3A. Don't know if there's a point to updating the BIOS unless I were to change the CPU, though. Asus support attitude seems to tend towards "if it ain't broke..."
On 5/2/2010 6:44 PM, Phoenix wrote: > On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:04:15 -0500, kitekrazy <> > wrote: >> Asus released a new BIOS for many of their M2N series board which > are >> basically discontinued. I'm still using a M2N-SLi and that fastest >> processor for that board was the first generation Phenoms. Now this >> board can accept a Phenom IIx4 945. > > >> I can assume this only came about because many people have >> experimented with processors not originally supported by this > board. >> (overclock.net) > > Interesting; my desktop mobo is the M3A. Don't know if there's a point > to updating the BIOS unless I were to change the CPU, though. Asus > support attitude seems to tend towards "if it ain't broke..." Nope. This only applies to certain AM2+ boards with nVidia chipsets. Phenom IIs were designed for the AM3 boards. Certain models of the Asus M2N series can now use these processors.
