Intel finds Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw

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<style>.at15t_email { background-position: 0px -4120px; }</style> Intel finds Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw, shipments stopped and recalls beginning

By Tim Stevens posted Jan 31st 2011 10:53AM

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A problem requiring a "silicon fix" is bad news in the chipset business, and sadly that's what Intel is announcing. Its new Intel 6 Series chipset, Cougar Point, has been found to have a flaw, something to do with the SATA controller. Intel is indicating that the ports can "degrade over time," leading to poor i/o performance down the road. All shipments have been stopped and a fix has been implemented for new deliveries, but it sounds like recalls will be starting soon for those with this ticking time bomb silicon within. It isn't a critical problem right now, though, so if you own a Sandy Bridge Core i5 or Core i7 system keep computing with confidence while looking for a recall notice, but it is bad news for Intel's bottom line: the company is advising a $300 million hit to revenue.

[Thanks, Matt]
 
Yeah I read this it's pretty sad for all of the people who jumped on it when it first came out. There is also an issue with the new Intel socket when using a large overclock some of the pins can short out.
 
Ha ha! You should be fine now that the problem's been identified, or if you don't plan to do extreme overclocking with the CPU. Bottom line, when you stress the shit out of the early production of this cpu it might develop problems.

But, those are ifs. What if I shit my pants right now and die of a heart attack? What if I get hemorrhoids hanging out of my ass by the cubic foot? I overclock the shit out of my I7 920 processor and, oh my gosh, higher voltages used in overclocking might shorten the lifespan of my cpu...really?! I guess I'll stop overclocking...when I fry it to death and then I'll get a replacement. In the meantime it's been two years and zero problems and at the end of this year I'm done with this cpu anyway.

Fuck that, build your system with this cpu if that's what you like.
 
Vengeance0058 said:
Maybe I should get a AMD processor for the computer I'm building....
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If you want 2 year old technology for the same price knock yourself out. If your going to build; set a price range and stick within it. I started playing BF2142 on a HP laptop with P4 & Ati x900....still owned btw.
 
AMD remains a valid choice for gaming systems. I'm looking forward to many-core CPU's--4 cores is enough but I want 8 or 10 or 12 or 16 cores--and Hyperthreading will be a welcome addition later.
 
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