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mswimfish said:
wont be buying an asus then :D what i should have said is if it had a security tab and it was tampered with or opened. lets face it we will never know the truth as we are all just guesing :rolleyes:
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Yeah, but how do security tabs work in any way? Say it had one - OP opens box - looks fine. OP screws up socket, puts back in box and says it was faulty before he received it. OP gets RMA. RMA department say - no way was that like that on leaving the factory, the odd lack of QC happens - but not that bad - must've put a screwed up board back in the box. Board is sent back at cost of OP, OP has to buy new board.

In what way would a security tab have helped? You have to open/break the tab to inspect the board anyway.
 
Marvin said:
Yeah, but how do security tabs work in any way? Say it had one - OP opens box - looks fine. OP screws up socket, puts back in box and says it was faulty before he received it. OP gets RMA. RMA department say - no way was that like that on leaving the factory, the odd lack of QC happens - but not that bad - must've put a screwed up board back in the box. Board is sent back at cost of OP, OP has to buy new board.

In what way would a security tab have helped? You have to open/break the tab to inspect the board anyway.
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Exactly the point I made earlier.
 
I did this but no where near as bad on an old core 2 duo board.
i think i bent 1 pin and it had snapped off which caused it to not function at all.

It was my fault as i tried to swap a cpu while still in the case and still standing upwards.
 
i haven't read this thread, only the posters start of the thread,
i was browsing engadget earlier an caught glimpse of a post about sandybridge... there's a flaw in the 2500k apparently and they are all been recalled.... look into this further and you may want to send yours back whilest you still can
 
zebedeee said:
i haven't read this thread, only the posters start of the thread,
i was browsing engadget earlier an caught glimpse of a post about sandybridge... there's a flaw in the 2500k apparently and they are all been recalled.... look into this further and you may want to send yours back whilest you still can
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Wrong there is a flaw in the Intel motherboard chipset not the 2500k, that is a cpu...they have also not yet been recalled, we're waiting an official announcement from Intel.
 
Troezar said:
Wrong there is a flaw in the Intel motherboard chipset not the 2500k, that is a cpu...they have also not yet been recalled, we're waiting an official announcement from Intel.
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my bad... i must have been very tired lastnight, i had been readin something bout the 2500k.... that must have been on this forum somewhere when someone was askin some advice... although i do remember reading somewhere about intel claimin it's going to cost a revinue of 300 million dollars
 
tbh aslong as they have admitted a fault thats already given grounds for refunds, however i can't see them actually recalling the boards, it'll be just like the nissan car company absolute years ago sayin that there was a huge fault in the build... something that effected safety in some way, i can't remember exactly the fault but they only called back 1000 or so, the rest that they got back was the ppl that sent them back of there own backs. i think intel will do the same thing, they have announced the fault to cover their own backs but they aren't exactly going to scream out to have all their lovely colored paper disappear from their wallets... those that have the sandybridge chipset boards should enquire about refunds, they have already admitted saying the fault isn't noticable at first but over time it will prevent the I/O will degrade to give very poor standards etc, so as they have just announced it then there's grounds for refunds.... and they did announce it, it wasn't just hear say. they may not of announced call backs but why wait for that????
 
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I bent a few pins on an Athlon 64 Once. Bent them right back and went on my way.

Those were the days.
 
Well helo you may just get lucky if you can get ikt RMA'd when the swap outs happen as gigabytes are taking them regardless of condition. Asus may do the same
 
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