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AMD Processor upgrade
Name: Kolt_ks Date: April 10, 2009 at 07:38:16 Pacific OS: Windows Vista CPU/Ram: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Product: Dell / Inspirion 531 Subcategory: AMD
Comment:
Im upgrading my processor, recieved a AMD Phenom 9500 Processor 4x, and after installing my computer will not come out of hybernation. am i missing something. Original processor is a AMD Athlon 64 X2
Name: jam Date: April 10, 2009 at 09:37:00 Pacific
Reply:
Did you check whether your motherboard supports the Phenom before you bought it? The board is probably an AM2 & the Phenom is an AM2+. It's socket compatible & *may* work, but it won't be able to reach it's full potential due to the slower HT bus. Plus the Phenom *should* be run with DDR2-1066.
The 9500 is one of the "bad" Phenoms with the TLB bug so depending on which X2 you upgraded from, it's very possible that your CPU upgrade was actually a performance downgrade.
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