K9N4 SLI - Lack of 125W CPU Support

Hello,
Just wondering why does this board not support any 125W CPU's?
I was looking at getting one of these boards to throw in a 6000 X2 but according to the website, this board only supports the 89W version, which is unavailable where I am.
I've seen this CPU supported on a Gigabyte board using the nforce 4 SLI Chipset, which the nforce 500 SLI is based off or rebadged from.
Thank you.

I'm sorry, i really don't care if the board goes up in smoke. As a matter of fact, this board is one of the worst decisions i have made. Don't get me wrong, I will always stick with MSI, but this particular model of a board seems to have constant issues with a lot of other people. particularly with it not posting right out of the box. i myself had this issue 2 or 3 times with the same model board and according to my findings here, and in many other forums, so do a lot of other people. so really, who cares if the damn thing goes up in smoke? it was only $80.00 and in the meantime I have a good setup going on. you won't hear me complaining about it frying, i'll just buy a different model.

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