Very poor examples on your part. The nvidia board doesn't support some of the newer 45nm Intel CPUs because Intel and nVidia are in a huge fight right now....Intel is not releasing microcode updates to nvidia for some of the 45nm CPUs! In the second example Intel has stated openly that the 945x chipsets WILL NEVER SUPPORT QUAD CORE. It has absolutely nothing to do with power requirements, and has absolutely everything to do with imposed chipset limitations, artificial or not.
Now, this AMD snafu has to do with the VRs not being strong enough to support AMD's power hungry quads. They are playing it off like people are insane to think a quadcore should work with what is possibly the best AMD chipset to date. That's absurd. Interestingly enough, back in 2006 even a $40 ECS Intel mobo could support a Pentium D 840, it all of its 130 watt TDP glory. Face it, AMD messed up by providing a reference board with woefully inadequate VRs. It's that simple.
[Posted by: joefriday | Date: 05/02/08 07:05:46 PM]