[IMiteBable2help]

My system is built almost entirely of Fry's parts. Very happy with my experience at Fry's. It pays to do your research online so you know what you need to buy before you go to the store. That board you purchased is old news. It's probably close to 2 years old. It really wasn't made for quad-core. The bios update to make it work was not a very good solution, but it was necessary at the time due to the lack of Mobo support for quad-cores when they first hit the stores. This is one of the reasons, at that time, I decided to go with the fastest dual-core I could afford. The quads were just too new and mobo support sucked.

[rainforest123]

The CPU has a speed of X gigaherts [ GHZ.

The PCI bus has a speed of < X GHZ. So even though your cpu can handle billions of instructions a second, it has to wait for the information to arrive. It has been a fact of computing for decades. .

IMBa2h is correct about doing research online. AMD has a section at which they provide a list of recommended motherboards for particular processors.

If I might add to IMBa2h's commentary, the Phenom Quad Core chip you have is backwards compatible with dual core motherboards.

RF123

[Anchoret]

Originally Posted by rainforest123

IMBa2h is correct about doing research online. AMD has a section at which they provide a list of recommended motherboards for particular processors.

As I've already posted, this was a Fry's combo, sold as a unit. The lacking research was theirs, not mine. When a retailer offers a CPU/MB combo, the legal "reasonable man" presumption is that it is appropriate match of components, which in this case it obviously was not. I have never bought MBs and CPUs individually, but as Fry's combo deals which save me a substantial chunk of money and, in fairness, have up to this point have been entirely proper component matchups. Fry's dropped the ball this time.

It goes back, with appropriate (if probably futile) commentary to Customer Service on Fry's judgment. I'll get a different sale combo and double-check it for compatibility this time.

Marked "Solved."

[rainforest123]

A:
Thanks for the update.

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RF123