Thread: AMD - Athlon II 245 or Athlon 64 x2 5050e processor

Yes, the system for my daughter will be mostly for net browsing, home work (MS Office, Publisher), essentially no gaming, but watch video via YouTube or play video files akin to .rmvb, .avi...etc.

What I acquired at the moment are the mobo (ECS A740GM-M), consistent with vendor's website it sustains Athlon II 245. Also I got 2 x 1 GB DDR2 800, 320 GB SATA HD, graphic card is incorporated into mobo.

The thing I concerned is I may need to do a BIOS inform after Windows system.

Yes. I deduction so. If the board you have has a bios edition any thing before this edition for your board 09/08/12. Yes, you will have to download this from the site and the edition 09/09/21, after this from the site and spark the bios.

Although the 245 will work when you put it in and windows will mount and work even before, but think me it's always well to have the latest bios for you mobo running on the machine. And the AM3 is jump to work better and cooler if the right instructions are given to it via the AM2+ socket.... and I deduction the Bios will be doing that......

The patch the company has free is for a particular difficulty they faced with the 3d Mark restart matters.... but the roots maybe actually deep since 3d Mark just showed them a probable fault in the bios other programs may have conked off at the incorrect time, better safer than sorry.