Is Newegg fishing for RMAs???

[Dave]

Ok, been preparing to build a system for friends of ours, and reading about
a bazillion reviews. Was leaning toward a Biostar 780G chipset mainboard
with a phenom something or other, but the Biostar version of this board is
flawed (3 phase power). Don't like Asus/Asrock/Gigabyte, so in a board with
3 PCI slots? ECS maybe? Somewhere along the line, I read that the ECS
version of the 780G chipset board for phenom would not handle 125W
processors. But I'm not sure which phenom to go with yet, so the ECS board
might do.

Went to check on the price, used Newegg for a quick reference. Found this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135075

On that page, there is a combo deal for the ECS 780G board plus a phenom
9950 (140W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

I thought that looked kind of fishy, so I checked the ECS web site. Just as
I thought I remembered, this board will handle a 95W processor, maximum.
There are two versions of that mainboard, and I'm not sure which one newegg
is selling, but they -both- go up to 95W, maximum. And that power limit is
not something that can be fixed with a BIOS flash. It is a hardware limit,
you can't code your way around it.

You are NOT going to have a good day if you try to fire up a new homebuilt
system with a Phenom 9950 in the ECS A780GM-A, like newegg is offering as a
combo. What is newegg thinking? -Dave

 

[John Doe]

You are NOT going to have a good day if you try to fire up a new
homebuilt system with a Phenom 9950 in the ECS A780GM-A, like
newegg is offering as a combo. What is newegg thinking? -Dave

I vaguely recall someone else recently pointing out an inconsistency
in a Newegg combo deal. Maybe it's whoever does the combo deals there.

 

[Dave]

They musta fixed it. All I see is a combo deal for an AMD Phenom
9600 Agena 95 Watts.

Well at least they swapped it to a processor that will probably allow the
system to boot properly. Unfortunately, they chose a processor with the
infamous TLB bug. If you want the 9600 chip, you need the one that works
properly, the "50" series, or 9650. Just goes to show, you gotta do your
research carefully before buying any hardware component. AND, watch the
combo deals carefully. -Dave

 

[RobV]

I was just searching for info about this TLB bug and can't find
anything relating to Intel processors (Note: I spent all of 2
minutes). I found a slew of articles dealing with the bug in AMD
Phenom processors. Perhaps it's just buried somewhere in there? Do
you have a link to the info? The Intel 9000's are the processors I am
considering. Thanks

The TLB bug was a problem with AMD CPUs; has nothing to do with Intel.