C|Net is reporting that there are potentially even more problems on the horizon for AMD. Apparently AMD confirmed that it is having compatibility problems between its newly released 9750 and 9850 Phenom x4 125w TDP CPUs when placed in its 780G chipset based motherboards.
"They've taken an enthusiast-class quad-core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard," James Whitman (AMD Rep) said. "And not all motherboard manufacturers have tweaked their boards to support a 125-watt TDP."
Whitman says that AMD's 790 chipset--not the 780--should be paired with the 9750 and 9850 processors and that a number of motherboard makers are already doing this. "We've never made claims that 780G motherboards are enthusiast-class motherboards. "Manufactures have taken an enthusiast-class quad core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard”
Not that it’s unreasonable to assume they should work together. It’s common for “mainstream” Intel chipsets with ATX and M-ATX motherboards to accept its Quad core CPUs (e.g P35).
"They've taken an enthusiast-class quad-core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard," James Whitman (AMD Rep) said. "And not all motherboard manufacturers have tweaked their boards to support a 125-watt TDP."
Whitman says that AMD's 790 chipset--not the 780--should be paired with the 9750 and 9850 processors and that a number of motherboard makers are already doing this. "We've never made claims that 780G motherboards are enthusiast-class motherboards. "Manufactures have taken an enthusiast-class quad core part and paired it with a mainstream motherboard”
Not that it’s unreasonable to assume they should work together. It’s common for “mainstream” Intel chipsets with ATX and M-ATX motherboards to accept its Quad core CPUs (e.g P35).
You have 3 intel categories and I think 7 or 6 AMD categories... its not good business.
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3279&p=2
In their testing there wasn't an issue with the chipset , but with the motherboards design.
Quote from Anandtech...
"The vast majority of the 780G boards have a three-phase or four-phase PWM circuitry design. These designs are completely acceptable for the 45W, 65W, 89W, and 95W TDP rated processors; however, drop in a 125W TDP processor such as the Phenom 9850e or 6400+ X2 and you are asking for trouble."
And an update to their original article...
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=427
Something is seriously wrong with that company.
No.. we all just realise that AMD have screwed up and we're waiting (calmly
Emphasis on "USED TO BE GOOD"!
On the topic of AMD failing as a company; its bad, but they have the technology to recover and in a worst case scenario, someone will buy them up. So they're here to stay for a long time still. And you should hope so, because we've seen what happens when Intel has no competition and what they are capable of when they have to be the best.
If you take a Core 2-generation motherboard, it should accept any Core 2 processor. Even though the P965 chipset wasn't designed to take a 45nm processor most mobo manufacturers have got their boards to accept them with a BIOS update.
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