• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Is there something wrong with SandyBridge?

Buchanan0204

Buchanan0204

Buchanan0204

Soldato
Joined
10 Jun 2010
Posts
5,158
Location
Scotland
I have been reading so many seperate posts from people, saying there newly built pc won't boot, crashes etc.

These all contain the new cpu's. There is also a thread where it was diagnosed as the cpu.

Is there something wrong with the first batch from OCUK? Is it indeed a bad batch?

I was planning on using a SandyBridge in a newbuild very shortly but I'm seriously considering giving it a wide berth.

Anyone know anything for sure? Has anything been admitted?

Cheers :)
 
Well they've been selling something like 100-150chips a day since Friday/Saturday I think Gibbo said so they've already sold something of the order of 500+. Given that there's been maybe 10 threads or so of people with problems and some of them have been able to fix their issues it leaves maybe 2-3% of chips/motherboards with problems which is fairly typical.
 
And 2 or 3% with new tech is very good imo.

Just finished my Sandy bridge install all went well apart from it would blue screen trying to boot into windows and took about a hour going through various options in the bios to sort it and in the end setting the hd to ide mode it booted fine for some reason it defaulted to another setting but seems all sorted now.

Just run a quick 3dmark06 test to compare to my i7 score.

I7 score 26543 3DMarks http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15270898

that was with my i7 @ 3.9 gig

sandy bridge score stock clocks 26499 3DMarks http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15279148

44 points in it so happy it matches big i7 overclock at stock settings.

Will overclock it in a day or so when its settled down some.
 
I reckon most of that 2-3% is people not understanding how to read tbh. Several of the complaining threads seem to be more user error than anything else.
 
So far SB has shown its picky on RAM. I think the general opinon is to use 1600mhz ram at 1.5v and it all should be fine.

Mostly it is build errors and configurations errors. Nothing unusual hopefully Asus,Gigabyte and MSI will have new BIOS soon to correct any bugs.

What got everyone going is 2/3 potential failiures appeared in 1 day, but only one of these was a actual dead cpu.
 
It hasn't put me off.

As the above posters have said, a lot of the errors reported were build errors such as missing connections, wrong bios selections etc.

Also bear in mind more people wil start a thread when they have issues than will post to say it's working perfectly. It gives people a wrong indiciation of reliability and the actual RMA % of the chips is very low for a launch product.
 
Makes me feel better OCuk and others are shipping huge quantities and no issues reported yet.

My order will be going ahead and cant wait.
 
I think people are starting to panic over the constant use of the word "died" in reference to problems with Sandybridge. "Died," implies a bricked chip that needs to be replaced, however most of the errors I've seen on here end up with the CPU being "brought back to life" after adjusting a few BIOS settings - mostly related to attempts to overclock.

So "die" seems to be an over-exaggeration of the situation, as it is more like CPUs reacting negatively to incorrect overclock configurations or memory incompatibility problems. That's nothing new and isn't specific to Sandybridge. It happens with any CPU of any generation if you overclock it wrong.

The only difference is that people are only just learning how they can push Sandybridge, so there's little information as to what can and can't be done with it. But some rules have now appeared and I believe are listed in this very forum.

Of course there are also some chips that have died and needed to be replaced, but again, that's no different than any other generation of CPU.
 
2500k and MSI GD65 here and no problems here.

Ran a 24hour prime 95 blend test and no problems/BSODs/crashes and temps never went above 36 which for full load I am pretty happy with :)

Oh and that was using 1.6v Corsair Dominator RAM :)
 
I'm going to keep this really short... There is nothing wrong with any Sandy Bridge CPU apart from the small % you always get that are faulty like with any product and over eager overclockers that don't treat their new CPU's with the correct respect or follow correct guidance.. They are amazing chips and you will see by this time next year how many of us here will be saying how great they are once we have all learned the correct way to treat them when overclocking.

Read this thread it's a great thread that will help you all that are thinking this chip is fragile... All chips are fragile when you start overclocking them out of spec...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18227651


Also follow what SimonMaltby has been doing and the adventures he's had with the Sandy Bridge chips, he's one that has learned the correct way to overclock a Sandy Bridge chip and very impressed with what he has gained now since he got his 2600K and very impressed he's following the rules of keeping the volts always to a minimum and overclocking in small steps to get to the overclock goal he wants or what the CPU can manage at a safe overclock level. Want to learn from someone follow what he's saying.. Nice job SimonMaltby :).

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/search.php?searchid=11587710
 
Last edited:
after a few initial setup problems, mine has been fine, albeit with my RAM at 1333 currently, got builders in this week so with constant power interruptions I cba to test much more till next week
 
I would say some of the problems might be the motherboards at fault they often have issues on rev 1 and early bios's.
 
Installed an I7 2600k today in a Gigabyte a P67A UD5, along with 8 meg of Corsair XMS3 no problems here at all.

Didnt even have to reinstall windows 7 off it went and picked up the correct chipset drivers, all I had to do was re register windows 7 again as my hardware had changed.

One happy bunny :)
 
Cupra said:
It's also worth a note that on the I tel site the max recommended temp is 72 deg
Click to expand...

Which is the Tcase value, i.e measured at the IHS, i.e not the core temp which is about 10C+ higher. For example, the i7 920s Tcase is 67.9°C if i remember right, even lower than SB, but generally accepted under 80C core temp under max load such as ibt is fine.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom