Problems appear to be affecting Athlon 64 revision E chips on some Nforce 3 and Nforce 4 motherboards. Symptoms include motherboard shut down and failure to boot, according to reports here from CeBIT. Revision E chips from AMD are just released and brings stuff like SSE3 support inside a 90 nanometre die. AMD on the other hand didn't make a big noise about its announcement. We learned that if you have this Athlon and already have Nforce 3 or Nforce 4 board that there is a big chance that you may encounter problems. We are told that AMD changed its thermal regulation protection and that's what makes it incompatible with at least some of the Nforce 3 and Nforce 4 boards out there. In order to solve these problems, new motherboards might be necessary and there doesn't appear to be an instant fix. The Inq
I've been hearing that, but I'd like to see a second more reliable source than the Inq, just because they are a geek tabloid to some extent. Hopefully it's not true, but we don't know for sure. I know I'll be keeping my ears turned up for any info.
