Could my mother board support this processor

[Quinn]

so i currently have a Phenom and i want to upgrade to the phenom 2 but i dont know if my motherboard supports it the motherboard i have is
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130161[/url]
Please help.

[dafour]

An AM3 cpu would work on a am2+ normally yes

[Quinn]

[QUOTE=dafour;24901294]An AM3 cpu would work on a am2+ normally yes[/QUOTE]

would i have to do anything special for my MoBo to allow it or just stick it in?

[thf]

It may require a BIOS update though

[Quinn]

Thanks, sorry for being such a noob at this but how would i go about updating my bios?

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anyone?

[WarriorXK]

Go to the MSI website and look for a BIOS update, there are usually 2 ways of doing it, the best way is to load up the latest BIOS revision to a USB stick formatted to FAT32 and load the BIOS update program from the BIOS, the other way is a tool that works inside Windows.

Note that this is the way I've done this with Asus motherboards, but MSI should work about the same.

[Quinn]

[QUOTE=Kialtia;24904640]Go to the MSI website and look for a BIOS update, there are usually 2 ways of doing it, the best way is to load up the latest BIOS revision to a USB stick formatted to FAT32 and load the BIOS update program from the BIOS, the other way is a tool that works inside Windows.

Note that this is the way I've done this with Asus motherboards, but MSI should work about the same.[/QUOTE]

thank you so much. i will try

[Canary]

But It's unlikely you will need to update the Bios so don't bother if the CPU works.