It depends... Look up the heatsink in question to determine compatibility. It may require a new set of mounting hardware, but most heatsink manufacturers try to maximize compatibility.
you will need to get pin count between your mobo and the processor you want to use Ok thank you, both are 940 pin AM2+ sockets are backwards compatible with both AM2 and AMD2+ processors. While AM2 sockets should be able to accept any AM2+ processor as well as AM2 CPUs, this usually is dependent on a BIOS upgrade of the system first, and many manufacturers have not provided such support.
This is a list of companies who manufactured processors sometime or another. Some of these companies aren't manufacturing processors currently.Though Intel, and AMD has a huge market share of microprocessors required for home/personal computers, Zilog stays in the background. Zilog manufactures processors for other equipments like remote controls, microwave ovens, mobile phones, PDA's, and similar.PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM, from March 1994 until August 2006.The following list is in alphabetical order:1 AMD2 ARM3 Digital Equipment Corporation4 Elbrus5 Fairchild Semiconductor6 Freescale Semiconductor (former Motorola)7 Hewlett-Packard8 IBM9 Intel10 MIPS Technologies11 National Semiconductor12 NEC13 NXP (former Philips Semiconductors)14 SPARC15 Texas Instruments16 VIA17 Western Electric18 Zilog*For the MCU (Micro Controller Unit) that is also a small computer on a chip, known manufacturers is: MicroChip for the PIC MCU, Intel for 8085, Atmell, Dallas and many more.
This is a list of companies who manufactured processors sometime or another. Some of these companies aren't manufacturing processors currently.Though Intel, and AMD has a huge market share of microprocessors required for home/personal computers, Zilog stays in the background. Zilog manufactures processors for other equipments like remote controls, microwave ovens, mobile phones, PDA's, and similar.PowerPC is a RISC architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM, from March 1994 until August 2006.The following list is in alphabetical order:1 AMD2 ARM3 Digital Equipment Corporation4 Elbrus5 Fairchild Semiconductor6 Freescale Semiconductor (former Motorola)7 Hewlett-Packard8 IBM9 Intel10 MIPS Technologies11 National Semiconductor12 NEC13 NXP (former Philips Semiconductors)14 SPARC15 Texas Instruments16 VIA17 Western Electric18 Zilog