If you're looking for a retail store: Corey's Computing. They currently have a Sempron and Athlon 1640 on clearance, both socket AM2. The title in their index lists the Athlon as AM2, but the detail page says AM3. I checked AMD's website, the LE-1640 is actually AM2.
http://www.coreyscomputing.com/clearance/processors.html
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/athlon/Pages/AMD-athlon-pr ocessor-model-numbers-feature-comparison.aspx
Their current AMD processors appear to be AM3.
http://www.coreyscomputing.com/processors.html
Rob Dyck
-----Original Message----- From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Kevin McGregor Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 3:33 PM To: MUUG Roundtable Subject: [RndTbl] CPU upgrade
Does anyone know if/where I can get a AMD AM2 CPU such as a Athlon X2 5800+? The AM3 CPUs are socket-compatible, but I'm not confident about the BIOS support.
Any thoughts?