Left with no PC at all...What would you do?

yannis76

yannis76

yannis76

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Hi,

2 weeks ago I sold my 9550+P5Q+8GB in order to upgrade to SB. Unfortunatelly the problem with the chipset happened and now I dont know what to do...
Shall I buy an SB combo and wait for the exchange in March or shall I turn to another solution?

If I were to buy now a SB system, these would my choice:

Asrock P67 Extreme4 or 6 (although I had been a faithful Asus customer)
i5-2400 (I dont care about OC)

Thank you in advance
 
lol buy a nice amd phenom II quad, i wouldn't advise touching SB until at least the next line of processors and mobo's arrive, most brand new chips have problems like this,
 
yannis76 said:
Hi,

2 weeks ago I sold my 9550+P5Q+8GB in order to upgrade to SB. Unfortunatelly the problem with the chipset happened and now I dont know what to do...
Shall I buy an SB combo and wait for the exchange in March or shall I turn to another solution?

If I were to buy now a SB system, these would my choice:

Asrock P67 Extreme4 or 6 (although I had been a faithful Asus customer)
i5-2400 (I dont care about OC)

Thank you in advance
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The Asrocks give you six SATA3 ports so you should have more then enough ports without the need to use the bugged SATA2 ports,I say go for it especially if you don't intend to use the SATA2 ports.
 
Would you agree about the Asrock Extreme 4/6? I feel its the best for its value and also has more Sata 3 ports. It's just that I am an Asus user for the last years and I am hesitating to go to Asrock
 
yannis76 said:
Would you agree about the Asrock Extreme 4/6? I feel its the best for its value and also has more Sata 3 ports. It's just that I am an Asus user for the last years and I am hesitating to go to Asrock
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Nothing wrong with Asrock,plenty of users over at Anandtech forums that love these boards,personally Asus are overrated and Asrock are at least just as good but with less issues at the moment.
 
As long as you understand what the Sandybridge fault is, and are comfortable with avoiding it (at least temporarily) then go for Sandybridge.
 
Intel have said that it only affects something like 5% of boards and you'll be fine if you only use sata slots 0 and 1 or sata 6Gb/s, so id say go for it :) also I'd get the extreme 6 :)
 
I'm just about to sell my s775 stuff and I'm wondering wether to put it off for a month or so, I dont have a problem with the fault it's just how all this will effect the resale of the these things when upgrade time comes about? I'm sure somebody on the bay would buy it without even knowing about all this!
 
KiiYzOo said:
Intel have said that it only affects something like 5% of boards and you'll be fine if you only use sata slots 0 and 1 or sata 6Gb/s, so id say go for it :) also I'd get the extreme 6 :)
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It affects 100% of boards. It's been said that only 5% of boards will manifest into a problem over their lifetime.

It's unclear what that's based on. Is it based on 80% of people not using those ports?
 
It is stupid ordering a motherboard with a known production fault. Intel says 5% to 15% and remember they are probably being conservative too.

Do you really want to go to all the hassle of returning the motherboard at a later date??

I would do one of the four following:
1.)Wait until the replacement motherboards are out. This will be a month or two.
2.)Get a socket 1156 based system
3.)Get a socket AM3 based system
4.)Get a socket 1366 based system
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
It is stupid ordering a motherboard with a known production fault. Do you really want to go to all the hassle of returning the motherboard at a later date??

I would do one of the four following:
1.)Wait until the replacement motherboards are out. This will be a month or two.
2.)Get a socket 1156 based system
3.)Get a socket AM3 based system
4.)Get a socket 1366 based system
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I don't think we are in a position to decide what's best for him. He'll know himself if he would rather get the system he wants, and have to RMA the motherboard, or get a system he doesn't really want.

Those 4 options though are pretty much exactly what he faces.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
When the OP returns the motherboard they are also going to be without a PC too.
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deliveryman will swap mobos at the door,so he will be without pc no longer than 1 hour, i ordered SB system parts also yesterday,have no regrets at all,see no reason go with 1156,1366 and surely no go with am3, especially no go with am3
 
if it were me i wouldn't let the sandy mobo problem worry me and just get the kit
when there ready to swap out the faulty mobo's just exchange it for a new one
 
s innes said:
if it were me i wouldn't let the sandy mobo problem worry me and just get the kit
when there ready to swap out the faulty mobo's just exchange it for a new one
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+1
i dont understand why so much fuss, its either people dont understand problem, o trying make bigger than it is
just get SB parts,build pc and when time come just swap mobos,you might even get better one than you paid for ;)
 
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