been crazy enough to try this before?

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Duneadan

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• May 17, 2006

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O.k. I'm guessing that the answer here is totally NO, but is it possible to insert a 940 opteron into a 939 motherboard.

If so, which pin needs to be clipped?

Has anyone been crazy enough to try this before?

 

crash013

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Sure you could insert it into a 939 socket with force, but it probably wouldn't work.

 

rdrash

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• May 18, 2006

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You cannot just snap a pin off, as the pinouts are totally different on the two packages.

Edit: Hypertext link to an article that has pictures showing the different pinouts of the 940 and 939 http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/athlon64-3800/index.x?pg=1

 

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Duneadan

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figures. too bad about the sale at overclockers' new sponsor.

 

Andreas1327

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• May 18, 2006

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Even if you could snap a single pin and it could fit in a 939 mobo I don't think that a 8xx series opteron would work with 939 pins...