Intel finds Sandy Bridge chipset design flaw, shipments stopped and recalls beginning

[Clone of 501]

Originally Posted by krone6

You mean that line will go even FARTHER down?!

I wouldn't doubt it.

[AnomalouS]

Surprised that Newegg just pulled all 1155 mobos and cpus but did not put up any information about the recall issue.

[dolshina]

Newegg has put up a "Deactivated" notice for the CPUs as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-070-_-Product

[repoman]

Holy ****, what a disaster and incredible waste of resources. Imagine all those motherboards that will go in the trash.

[krone6]

Originally Posted by repoman

Holy ****, what a disaster and incredible waste of resources. Imagine all those motherboards that will go in the trash.

Why not just use another cpu? Why throw motherboards out? Heck, just keep them until april.

[repoman]

Originally Posted by krone6

Why not just use another cpu? Why throw motherboards out? Heck, just keep them until april.

I meant that motherboard manufacturers will probably just throw the boards with the recalled chipsets out. As far as I know, chipsets can't be replaced.

[kwiksilver]

*sigh* Looks down at sandy bridge....

Hopefully the problem doesn't last too long.

In the mean time I'm okay. I've got a couple more i7's to tide me over.


Let us not forget AMD's TLB bug in the Phenoms and Opterons in 07

[repoman]

Oh by the way, I read on Anandtech I believe that the SATA III ports are unaffected. So if you can get away with the few ports that they give you, you have nothing to worry about

[WiCKeD]

You know, I think the last time they had to do a recall was the original Pentium - 16 years ago. There is still one of them with the bug collecting dust in my parent's basement. All things considered, I would say that's a pretty good track record. Bummer for current owners, though. Sounds like you will all have to wait to see how the OEMs are going to handle the recall.

[kwiksilver]

Originally Posted by repoman

Oh by the way, I read on Anandtech I believe that the SATA III ports are unaffected. So if you can get away with the few ports that they give you, you have nothing to worry about

It's the Sata II (Sata 300) ports that are affected. The SATA III ports (SATA 600) are fine.

The only thing attached to my SATA II ports is an optical drive. I'm fine.

[Mindwarp]

Originally Posted by WiCKeD

You know, I think the last time they had to do a recall was the original Pentium - 16 years ago. There is still one of them with the bug collecting dust in my parent's basement. All things considered, I would say that's a pretty good track record. Bummer for current owners, though. Sounds like you will all have to wait to see how the OEMs are going to handle the recall.

I remember the floating point bug. Intel seemed to have survived that and I'm sure they'll survive this.

[Deluded]

Ah, yes. My professor talked about that pentium bug.

This is all a big hapoola. Turns out that only the SATAII port is affected. Everything else should be unaffected, so... I don't see any cause for concern.

[Mindwarp]

Does this mean I can pick up a really inexpensive SB if I'm willing to live with it?

[Deluded]

Originally Posted by Mindwarp

Does this mean I can pick up a really inexpensive SB if I'm willing to live with it?

Probably.

Hell, you could probably get away with using a SATA III PCI card or something.

[travy25]

So why did they pull the cpu's when the issue is the chipset on the mobo's?

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by travy25

So why did they pull the cpu's when the issue is the chipset on the mobo's?

Beacuse people would buy CPUs thinking they could get a board later but they wont. Or buy a 1155 CPU with a 1156 board.

[Mindwarp]

I'm guessing because without a board the chips are useless.

EDIT: Crab Boy beat me to it.

[Deluded]

Given that all SB motherboards have this affected chipset, and there is no 3rd party chipset available (beside SATA III ports), might as well stop the sale of the processor. No motherboard = no processor.

And probably is a preventive measure to stop that bright fellow from installing a 1155 processor into a 1156 motherboard... Why, wasn't there a picture floating around the internet about someone ruining a $600 GPU because they wanted to install it into the AGP slots? (8800GTX at launch or something).

[ZorchThatCPU]

Originally Posted by repoman

I meant that motherboard manufacturers will probably just throw the boards with the recalled chipsets out. As far as I know, chipsets can't be replaced.

Sure they can. It's just another chip, looks about the same as a de-lidded CPU. There's no reason to chuck the motherboards in the trash. Just pull the heatsink, replace chip, sell. No problem.

As for me, I'm still running strong with my 5GHz-daily Sandy Bridge build, and loving every minute of it! There's not a single thing wrong with my rig at this time. If something eventually starts to go wrong, then hey, I'll take my free motherboard upgrade from the recall and continue on my merry way!

If anything, this makes me happy, because only me and a few others got in on the ground floor, and at least for a while, it's only me and those other folks who will get the exclusive right to run a 5GHz quad. Sucks to be the people who waited too long to pull the trigger!

[Mindwarp]

Originally Posted by ZorchThatCPU

If anything, this makes me happy, because only me and a few others got in on the ground floor, and at least for a while, it's only me and those other folks who will get the exclusive right to run a 5GHz quad. Sucks to be the people who waited too long to pull the trigger!

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