I purchased a new motherboard and the Micro Center told me that a Athlon 3000 xp will work in a Socket 754, is this true and is there any changes I need to make?

Thanks

QUOTE(leo1020 @ Oct 30 2005, 06:02 PM)I purchased a new motherboard and the Micro Center told me that a Athlon 3000 xp will work in a Socket 754, is this true and is there any changes I need to make?

Thanks
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Thats not true. The Socket A and 754 are 2 different pin configurations and they are not compatible with each other. If you have a XP 3000 and got a 754 board then take it back and get a Socket (462) A board. Try www.newegg.com for good Socket A boards. They have most of them reviewed too.

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QUOTE(bp1019 @ Oct 30 2005, 06:30 PM)Thats not true.  The Socket A and 754 are 2 different pin configurations and they are not compatible with each other.  If you have a XP 3000 and got a 754 board then take it back and get a Socket (462) A board.  Try www.newegg.com for good Socket A boards.  They have most of them reviewed too.
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Micro Center, sadly, has probably already forgotten about the axp's and thought u were talking about a socket 754 axp 64. At least I hope they don't really think sockets are interchangeable.

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QUOTE(bp1019 @ Oct 30 2005, 03:30 PM) If you have a XP 3000 and got a 754 board then take it back and get a Socket (462) A board.  Try www.newegg.com for good Socket A boards.  They have most of them reviewed too.
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actually, id go for a 754 CPU, instead of getting a socket a motherboard...much better performance, nto to mention an AXP 3000+ could probably pull in soem nice money if you could find a buyer /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

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There's a big CPU comparison test here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051121/index.html' ">http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20051121/index.html

Interesting to see the S754 Sempron's turning in such a good performance compared to the top-end of Socket A; that onboard memory controller is really pulling in the frames.

Once again AMD has a low-cost processor able to run with the pack without even breaking a sweat /wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /> Get one of these and a decent Geforce card i.e. 6600GT and you're quid's in.

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