Intel Recall

BAppleton · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:56

I bought my core i7 2600k on the 10th febuary, I've heard rumours of this range being faulty. Do I need to send it back for replacement?

Jokester · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:59

It's the motherboard chipset that has a potential fault rather than the CPUs themselves.

BAppleton · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:00

so there is no need to replace the cpu and this fault is only related to the motherboards?

Jokester · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:01

Yes, what motherboard do you have?

BAppleton · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:20

As luck would have it I left my motherboard to last for order and haven't bought it yet, I am getting either the asus p8p67 pro or the sabertooth p67 in the next 2 weeks. So is it the rev3 boards thats are the new ones?

Bito · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:22

Yes, revision 3 are the latest revised motherboards

BAppleton · 8 Mar 2011 at 19:26

good man! thanks mate... feel relieved I didn't buy the mobo first, I came so close to making that decision

olivier renault · 9 Mar 2011 at 03:29

Wouldn't have been a disaster. Intel replaces all the faulty boards.

cjgardens · 9 Mar 2011 at 12:48

What mother boards are the new fixed ones

VoG · 9 Mar 2011 at 12:49

cjgardens said:
What mother boards are the new fixed ones

anything thats labelled as a B3 or Revision 3

Treebiter · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:08

Phew... Just bought a 2500k last week and the thread title raised my heartrate for a moment.

In case anyone's thinking of getting one, my OCUK Allosaur 2500k OC'd bundle arrived last Saturday with R3 ASUS P8P67. I was mighty pleased.

cjgardens · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:12

VoG said:
anything thats labelled as a B3 or Revision 3

Ahhhh the dear one lol thanks for that

VoG · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:15

cjgardens said:
Ahhhh the dear one lol thanks for that

dear?

any board currently available, even the cheap ones, will eventually be replaced by B3 versions, it's just taking time for them to filter thru to the retailers, so if your on a tight budget, it will pay to wait.

MeatLoaf · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:29

The B2 and B3 vanilla P8P67 boards are the same price

Colasanto · 9 Mar 2011 at 13:40

Treebiter said:
Phew... Just bought a 2500k last week and the thread title raised my heartrate for a moment.

Me too, Worst thoughts going through my head. Lol

Misleading OP is misleading.

BAppleton · 9 Mar 2011 at 18:01

sorry guys for misleading post, i was worried myself but glad to hear its a fault with the mobos and not the cpus

MrKeeno · 9 Mar 2011 at 20:50

Sorry to hijack the thread but I recently bought a bundle from overclockers that included a P8P67 PRO, how do I tell what revision it is?

Liquid · 9 Mar 2011 at 21:01

busman said:
Sorry to hijack the thread but I recently bought a bundle from overclockers that included a P8P67 PRO, how do I tell what revision it is?

red banding on top right hand side of motherboard box, says 'New P67 B3 revision' on it

MrKeeno · 9 Mar 2011 at 21:13

Meh, I dont have that

What should I do then? Only ordered from overclockers on the 7th of February.

Edit : Just checked by using CPU-Z and I have the 2nd revision.

BAppleton · 10 Mar 2011 at 06:13

log on to overclockers and get an rma for it, they should replace it for you with b3 board