[geeks] Athlon CPU upgrades, mobile OK in desktop?

[Chad McAuley]

On 9/16/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
> I was thinking of upgrading my AMD64 CPU, and noticed today that the
> mobile version of the AMD64 has double the cache of the "normal"
> version (1MB versus 512K).
>
> Is there any reason the mobile version will not work in a desktop
> motherboard?
>
> Both are socket 754, and the pinouts seem to be the same too.
>
> Anyone tried this before?
>
> It would be nice to get a CPU with more cache.



Not sure about the Athlon64 chips, but I know the mobile Athlon XPs
ran fine in desktop motherboards.
So I'd say it's worth a shot.