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Various news sources have been pouncing on AMD's acknowledgment of potential problems when a high-end Phenom X4 processor is paired with certain 780G motherboards, but some of these articles have been focusing on the wrong part of the equation. The reported overheating and stability issues aren't being caused by Phenom, but by motherboard manufacturers' failure to design/certify their solutions for a Phenom processor with a 125W TDP.
This type of issue actually isn't all that rare; a $49 motherboard is $49 for a reason. Even if the motherboard's chipset is technically capable of running a high-end processor, the motherboard may not be designed to handle the CPU's power draw and thermal output. That's essentially what has happened here, but a combination of other factors has made the situation more important than it might otherwise be.
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