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I don't know why I did this but I was convinced that the Athlon 3000G CPU and my Gigabyte A520M DS3H motherboard were compatible. I popped it in. Updated the BIOS to F14. Ran Passmark's Memtest86 for 4 passes and then proceeded to install Win10 x64 21H2 and I even ran all my stress tests without any issues.
Everywhere I look it says the Athlon 3000G is not compatible with the A520 chipset and yet it is working! I only discovered this when I was looking for support for the Athlon 3000G on an MSi B450M Pro-VDH WIFI. The weird part is that all the info I have says the B450 chipset supports this chip but the Msi B450M Pro-VDH WIFI does not:
Does anyone know what will happen if I just leave it as is? I am now wondering why it is not supposed to work. Voltage to the CPU? It does have a loud whine to the CPU, like a coil whine.
Everywhere I look it says the Athlon 3000G is not compatible with the A520 chipset and yet it is working! I only discovered this when I was looking for support for the Athlon 3000G on an MSi B450M Pro-VDH WIFI. The weird part is that all the info I have says the B450 chipset supports this chip but the Msi B450M Pro-VDH WIFI does not:
B450M PRO-VDH MAX | Motherboard | MSI Global
Best AMD AM4 B450 Micro ATX motherboard, Turbo M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, MSI PRO
www.msi.com
Does anyone know what will happen if I just leave it as is? I am now wondering why it is not supposed to work. Voltage to the CPU? It does have a loud whine to the CPU, like a coil whine.