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Karak
01-31-2011, 07:34 PM
Tom's Hardware (http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandy-bridge-sata-error-sata-3,12112.html)

Basically some recalls and some issues. Sadly degrades over time as well. Might be awhile to really see the impact.

From Tom's
Hot on the heels of Intel's recall of its series-6 chipset known to everyone as "Sandy Bridge," we spoke to several motherboard and system manufacturers about what's going to happen for them, and their customers.

The error lies in Sandy Bridge's SATA controller, which at this time, is identified to degrade performance over time. But, what does this mean for motherboard and system manufacturers:

According to several major manufacturers that we spoke to, customers are calling asking to return stock. Since mass quantities of boards and systems have already been sold into the channel, systems builders are still waiting for official word from Intel on what to do. Surprisingly, top management at companies like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, etc., did not even hear about this issue until this morning -- when everyone else found out.

Exodus
01-31-2011, 07:44 PM
Thank god I held off on the upgrade to the 2500k, I was eyeing that thing on newegg/ncix like a freaking hawk.

Karak
01-31-2011, 07:49 PM
Thank god I held off on the upgrade to the 2500k, I was eyeing that thing on newegg/ncix like a freaking hawk.

I was literally getting one this weekend. Not ALL are impacted but its enough of a weirdness to make me rethink the situation. And my current system is ballz fast so I think I should be fine for awhile until all the real news comes out.

johnperkins21
01-31-2011, 08:52 PM
I just built a system with the i5-2500k using a p67 board last Wednesday. It's kicking all kinds of ass right now, but this news is kind of a bummer.

EternalGamer
01-31-2011, 09:28 PM
I just bought a new Alienware literally a week before SandyBridge came out. I got alot of advice to wait for SB, but I decided to go for the Alienware due the great deal it offered even though it didn't have SandyBridge. I actually mentioned concerns over the instability of new tech as one of the reasons I was happier with the "tried and true" older processor. I'm glad I didn't wait. The PC is awesome and runs over 60fps at max settings in every game I've thrown at it so far.

Satertek
01-31-2011, 09:30 PM
I told them they should have built that bridge out of concrete and steel instead but they didn't listen to me.

Seika
01-31-2011, 09:45 PM
Thank god I held off on the upgrade to the 2500k, I was eyeing that thing on newegg/ncix like a freaking hawk.


I know the title is sort of correct since the motherboards affected only support Sandy Bridge, but let me just make the distinction here that this problem is in the Intel 6 Series Chipsets, on the Motherboards, not the actual Sandy Bridge CPUs.

Anyway, a $300 million mistake, ouch!

Karak
01-31-2011, 09:51 PM
I know the title is sort of correct since the motherboards affected currently only support Sandy Bridge, but let me just make the distinction here that this problem is in the Intel 6 Series Chipsets, on the Motherboards, not the actual Sandy Bridge CPUs.

Anyway, a $300 million mistake, ouch!

Hence the links and quote as usual for posts. Didn't want a huge thread title when it was easy enough to read the info at the actual places that post the data.

RandoM51
02-01-2011, 05:03 AM
$300 million? The estimate is now $1 billion counting repairs/returns.

Karak
02-01-2011, 07:52 AM
$300 million? The estimate is now $1 billion counting repairs/returns.

Ya this is going to grow larger for a while I think.