:D (10 char)

According to the news releases, Anandtech, Bit-Tech, Tom's and others, it's not supposed to be an acute problem (other than the financial disaster!) The chip sets work and work well. With extreme testing, however, (heat room and over volted) there seems to be an increased leakage in one or more voltage gated transistors in the #2-#5 SATA pathway that COULD lead to degraded performance over time. It wasn't in the test chips but it apparently came with the changes to the "B" stepping of the chip sets, the ones that actually shipped. There's no report that I've heard of where people are actually experiencing failures with the platform. I do recall an early review on a board where the Native SATA was slower than the bolt on and there was question why. Mighyt have been Gigabyte board on Anandtech, just don't recall.

So, in any event, it doesn't look like anyone's going to be sitting on the side of the road with a dead board while they wait for a recall/replacement. Might be a good time to twist it's tail and see just what they'll take if it looks like a big recall.

But if you already have a board and are fine with it and haven't bought your cpu yet, you're pwnd. Or if you got a bad one, or blew yours up will you be able to rma through the distributer since they pulled them? Just saying, surely there are a few on the short end of this stick.

Glad I don't have to deal with this

/AMD fanboy

Let's not forget the TLB bug.

F00F bug O.o

its must have caused enough failures already for it to come to the surface though.

Nice though if you are unaffected at the moment, you can still use it until details of recall get sorted out.

Wonder who's gonna pay shipping on all this!?!?

This is from Anandtech article which suggests that optical drives are not safe either.

Hehe, that was the first thing I told my wife after I told her about the recall. Like most other, I guess I'll just see how far I can push this thing, and if/when it goes boom, get a new one and start over :eek:

I should have been more clear.

I only use my optical drives to install my OS. I'm fine.

for those who are looking for a sandy bridge processer ebay is still selling them and at pretty good prices but there going fast so if you want 1 you better hurry and get it now

for those who don't know make sure the seller has a good rating before you buy as people will try to take advantage of this situation
http://computers.shop.ebay.com/Compu...=p3286.c0.m282

+1
even though i feel this will soon become a flame bait thread.

glad i stayed with my 1366 I7 hehehe.

supposedly some places in Poland are already selling 990X's

some places have put sandy bridge procs back up for sale. if i do build sandy bridge i will wait for the Z6x chipset or go 2011 all together :)

all and all even giants make mistakes and in every aspect of the world as well. just fix it and move on

my wife did this, shes been trying to fix me for 12 years now. I think Intel will fair better.

lmao i know what you mean.

Its the same for us guy as well. I can take apart a pc down to it utmost smallest components and rip apart a motor put it all back together and make it run, It follows logic.

now women follow NO LOGIC when they break it just better to get a new model which will still be broken anyway lmao.

of course all of this happens the day after i order my 2600k :eek:
but i think it will be ok and im not gonna worry about it
i get my stuff on thursday and im gona be :D:D:D on that day :hat

un4givn has forgiven:confused:

lol wut????

Poor pun :shun:

Glad you got your new rig coming:thumbup:
I was going to order a 2600k and Asus something or another mobo Friday but this whole mess slammed on the brakes for a benching/crunching rig I was planning.
Already had the HDD and RAM, with a TX650 psu on the way:cussing:
There goes my 3D hwbot points for 3D on 9800GT, GTS450, and 2x5850's, not to mention 2D.

Who's got a 970/980x for sell:):helpme

EDIT::lol Elusive 920's appear on newegg now http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ame=LGA%201366:rolleyes:

i returned my sandy notebook and picked up a late model sony vaio in its place. not sure if i really needed to, but now i have a bigger screen and a better quality notebook.