Someone on eBay "liberated" an ASUS M2N61-AR board out of something small and HP. That board is now on its way to me. (I'm aware of the funky power supply connector -- my adapter cable has already arrived.)
Here's HP's essentially vestigial specs page for that board --> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c01321559#N88
A pity I can't use a short URL service here -- HP has a knack for making URLs long as my arm...
My board is coming with the HSF and an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5000+. That's a 65w CPU and I'd like to make the setup a touch less thirsty at the wall socket... trouble is HP doesn't give really any useful info on what CPUs can go in this thing... grrrr aargh...
I know about the obvious drop in performance and I don't give a hoot -- I'm going to be using this as a box for a lightweight Linux distro that I'm in love with; the performance "penalty" is kind of insignificant given that this distro works on most P3 systems just fine heck, I've got a P2 laptop that sort of runs it (weird hardware from 1999 means not everything works, but that's more hardware than software).
So if I get an AM2 Sempron 3000+ (SDD3000IAA3CN -- 1.6GHz, 35w) would my new board work with it? Does anyone know?
Here's HP's essentially vestigial specs page for that board --> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c01321559#N88
A pity I can't use a short URL service here -- HP has a knack for making URLs long as my arm...
My board is coming with the HSF and an AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5000+. That's a 65w CPU and I'd like to make the setup a touch less thirsty at the wall socket... trouble is HP doesn't give really any useful info on what CPUs can go in this thing... grrrr aargh...
I know about the obvious drop in performance and I don't give a hoot -- I'm going to be using this as a box for a lightweight Linux distro that I'm in love with; the performance "penalty" is kind of insignificant given that this distro works on most P3 systems just fine heck, I've got a P2 laptop that sort of runs it (weird hardware from 1999 means not everything works, but that's more hardware than software).
So if I get an AM2 Sempron 3000+ (SDD3000IAA3CN -- 1.6GHz, 35w) would my new board work with it? Does anyone know?