While AMD´s 760 chipset offers excellent performance, it does have its fair share of shortcomings. Its primary limitation is cost, AMD-760 motherboards are expensive to implement. This drawback was cast into the limelight at the end of last year when Gigabyte and Micron released AMD-760 based systems that only supported 200MHz bus speeds.

Due to increased noise levels at 266MHz, the 760 chipset may generate a clock glitch in CPU, causing the system to hang. We highlighted this quandary back in November of last year in our AMD-760 Delay? article. To resolve this problem, motherboard manufacturers had to implement an additional filter to ensure proper operation, increasing costs on the already expensive 760 chipset.