Sandybridge Issues?

john10001 · 27 Feb 2011 at 03:55

I hear a lot of good reports on these forums and elsewhere of the overclocks possible with the new Sandybridge chips. At the same time though I also hear from people not to jump in just yet and wait for instability and bugs to be ironed out. I am wondering what they are talking about though as they never seem to divulge further.

Are there presently any teething issues with the Sandybridge Chips or any of the motherboards or memory they are matched with?

Cheers,

John

Brian8bit · 27 Feb 2011 at 04:04

I think the problems people had with the chips off the bat was pushing too much voltage through them. 65nm was good for about 1.4 - 1.6v, 45nm for about 1.4v and the current 32nm is good for 1.38v as noted in the Sandybridge overclocking thread.

Liquid · 27 Feb 2011 at 06:04

john10001 said:
I hear a lot of good reports on these forums and elsewhere of the overclocks possible with the new Sandybridge chips. At the same time though I also hear from people not to jump in just yet and wait for instability and bugs to be ironed out. I am wondering what they are talking about though as they never seem to divulge further.

Are there presently any teething issues with the Sandybridge Chips or any of the motherboards or memory they are matched with?

Cheers,

John

this forum is littered with loads of threads covering what you are asking here, take some initiative and have a look

john10001 · 28 Feb 2011 at 02:09

Brian8bit said:
I think the problems people had with the chips off the bat was pushing too much voltage through them. 65nm was good for about 1.4 - 1.6v, 45nm for about 1.4v and the current 32nm is good for 1.38v as noted in the Sandybridge overclocking thread.

I think I have found what I was looking for elsewhere. It sounds like the Sandybridge sets are flawed and have major issues at the moment and its best to wait till they have been fixed. The SB chips on the Motherboards are causing the SATA connectors to fail after certain mount of use. It looks like they have now fixed this and its best to wait for the boards to start shipping again.

pcAnywhere · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:09

You need to decouple "Sandybridge CPUs" and "Intel '66 chipsets".

The former are superb with no issues and the later have problems with their 3gb/s (sata2) ports. Now that new corrected boards are so close to delivery, you're probably best waiting for them to arrive.

Colasanto · 28 Feb 2011 at 09:55

John, most people have or are moving to SATA 3. Especially new builds... so the current issues with SATA II from 2-5. So you can still use SATA II 0-1 and if there is a 6th. No issues with SATA 3 ports.

Most people won't consider ports 2-5 a major issue for them.