AMD Phenon X4

[Jorge Gaitan]

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).