[Thee_oddball]

if you have one of the following boards there is a good chane that a bios upgrade will alllow you to drop a new bulldozer chip in

Default AM3+ CPU ready motherboards support list
ASUS, ASRock and Gigabyte announced that some of new revised AM3 motherboards with current chipsets will support AM3+ Bulldozer CPUs through future BIOS updates. Unfortunately with current chipsets mean that some features like Bulldozer power management and VCore will be disabled, you will need to wait for new AMD 900 series chipset to unlock all features.

If the motherboard you bought recently come with a black socket AM3b with 1 extra pin then you will know this mean AM3+.

http://translate.google.co.uk/transl...%26prmd%3Divns

http://event.asus.com/2011/mb/AM3_PLUS_Ready/

ASUS

Crosshair IV Extreme
Crosshair IV Formula
M4A89TD PRO/USB3
M4A89TD PRO
M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
M4A89GTD PRO

Upcoming M5A series:

M5A88-V EVO
M5A88-M EVO
M5A88-M
M5A87
M5A78L
M5A78L LE
M5A78L-M/USB3
M5A78L-M PLUS
M5A78L-M LE
M5A78L-M LX

ASRock

880G Pro3
890GM Pro3 R2.0
890GX Pro3
890FX Deluxe5

Gigabyte

GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 3.1)
GA-890GPA-UD3H (rev. 3.1)
GA-880GA-UD3H (rev. 3.1)
GA-870-UD3P (rev. 3.1)
GA-870A-UD3 (rev. 3.1)
GA-870A-USB3 (rev. 3.1)