Compatible With socket AM2 socket AM3 processors

AMD announced that the socket AM2 will be compatible with AM3 processor generation. AMD asserts AM3 support DDR3 and DDR2 SDRAM, but not on the same motherboard. This means the CPU socket AM3 has a DDR2 memory controller and DDR3 terintergrasi that may be running on the motherboard socket AM2 with DDR2 memory or the motherboard learner-AM3 socket with DDR3 technology and HyperTransport 3.0 (HT-3). HT-3 allows data transfer of 5.2 GB / s AM2 compared with only 2.0 GB / s. The possibility of using the pin socket 940 if it is compatible with socket AM2.

Source :Hyper Media