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We could use more details. Why will it "possibly" cause degredation?
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Sandybridge design flaw recalls beginning!!
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im much the intel fan boy now i can afford them
definitely worth the extra over amd IMO.... But if you look at their wording"some" could mean 1% or 99%
"may" could mean 1% or 90% of the time
etc.
its just worded like that so that it doesnt affect their stock market value as much. although $300 million set aside for it sounds like its quite a deal...
i'd hate to be the messenger in this situation though.. sandybridge was the new knight in shining armor. a lil tarnished now but still shouldnt detract from a great processor.
It's more like $700 million
Total cost to repair and replace affected materials and systems in the market is estimated to be $700 million. Since this issue affected some of the chipset units shipped and produced in the fourth quarter of 2010, the company will take a charge against cost of goods sold, which is expected to reduce the fourth quarter gross margin percentage by approximately 4 percentage
Indeed. There's a huge difference between "your 6GB/s port may slow to 5.5GBs" and "all ports will slow to 0.1GB/s". Until we know what is actually involved there's no point panicking. The issue may be trivial to non-existent for the vast majority of users or it could render the boards (eventually) unusable. How many of us were actually affected by the infamous floating point bug? The biggest inconvenience I can recall is having to install a patch for Excel...
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Well that's a pretty costly fail from Intel. Hope the turnaround for new boards is quick as I don't fancy waiting too long.
Users of Asus boards i recommend you watch the Hard forums for updates:
http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=80
http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=80
was thinking the same as where not going to be trusting intel now.
Yeh I hope its only on certain batches. I still have a marvell controller if it drops off dramatically
swap out? impossible. batches? lol its the chipset itself.
I sense a troll!!!
I read this from Anandtech,
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-discovers-bug-in-6series-chipset-begins-recall
Damned if they do and damned if they don't, I can imagine the responses of these people if Intel hadn't had initiated a recall and kept it all quiet.
you'd have jumped ship anyways, no loss really.
I sense someone in denial.
"Intel will begin shipping the fixed version of the chipset in late February. The recall will reduce Intel's revenue by around $300 million and cost around $700 million to completely repair and replace affected systems."
So what they expect is in 3years a failiure rate of 5 - 15%. Not as bad as it looks really.
Credit for intel to man up and get ontop of the issue. They could have just let it be and in 3 years time we all be complaining.
you don't need to send your chip anywhere, as for your board, that'll be down to what ever method your mobo manufacturer implements to replace the defective boards.
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