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Known issue
This is a well known issue (Anandtech reported it on the 5th April http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3279&p=2) - basically the motherboard manufacturers put cheaper components on the 780G boards to save a few pennies and the power circuitry can't handle 125W CPUs...What are they talking about?
You can get an incompatible Gigabyte 780G Chip mobo for £55 or a compatible MSI 790X for £58 and aside from the IGP the difference is £3! If that’s the price hike they are talking about then they should be taking steps to ensure that the quad core works on the 780G even if it has to work quite a bit slower.Having said that I never got an Intel quad core processor for an IGP board, I got it for one of their X38 pressure cooker chipsets instead and to keep it cool I had to install 140mm fan right next to the mobo. Oh and while I’m still AMD fan boying - Intel heat sink brackets are sh** get it together and come up with a new design.
Yeah, well...
And since when is Phenom an enthusiast chip?Add a new comment: