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Originally posted by iamjero
I noticed that the Athlon 64 processors only come in socket 754. I guess a socket A mobo will not accept it.
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No it will not. An Athlon 64 is AMD's next generation processor, and it will run in 64 bit mode (current processors, like XP and P4 are 32 bit processors). You must have software to take advantage of the 64bit computing though. I believe there is a Windows 64bit edition coming soon, and I know there are several Linux distros optimized for 64bit processors.
I plan on getting an Athlon 64 for my next machine.