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phlembob
February 10th, 2009, 03:11 PM
AMD has produced Opteron and Athlon dual core/quad cores with different core voltage to maximize output vs power consumption. My question is: will any AM2/AM2+ motherboard recognize the processors and automatically adjust core voltage to the processor?

Both work under same programming without fail, but will the physical mobo understand which processor is installed with the proper voltages for operation. The question may be strange to some of you, but the terminology spoken and written for desktop mobos is Athlon. The terminology for servers and workstations mobos is Opteron.

What I think doesn't matter if I destroy one or both through ignorant error. This is what I wish to prevent. I haven't found any written material addressing this question.
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