FashionFish Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Does anyone remember the problem Intel had way, way back with the floating point calculator in some of their CPUs? I think we're going back 15 years? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashionFish Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Update from PCPer (link is in the news section of our home page). MB manufacturers are stating the CPU itself is not faulty. It's the MB circuitry for the SATA 3.0 Gb/s. They're offering MB owners the choice of an RMA'd MB or a standalone six port SATA card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FashionFish Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 I don't see the huge deal over this. The fix is known and in the works - retailers will take back any affected motherboards / systems - and Sandy Bridge is still BLAZINGLY fast. If you're really that concerned use the Marvell-powered SATA ports on your mobo (since most tend to have them as an extra) instead of the Intel integrated ones in the southbridge. They should be clearly marked on most motherboards. Also - I've seen around the net that only some P67 boards are affected and it may not affect H67 boards at all... Announced by Intel this morning, the H series is also impacted unfortunately. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Thanks for all the updates FashionFish! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 Yep just read that myself...both chipsets...but it seems Ports 0 and 1 arent affected...? anyone see that? or notice that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatedmeeting Posted February 1, 2011 Posted February 1, 2011 (edited) Use the ones provided by the additional controller. Edited February 1, 2011 by Fatedmeeting Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 i read thad , they are having problems with the socket too.... Same thing happened to early 1156 boards that burned pins. Seriously just wait a month before you buy the latest and greatest. Things take time to work the bugs out of. The socket was from Miahallen over at Techreaction in a blog that was so overblown its not funny. He got a board for review directly from Gigabyte that showed the problem. I have not had a board show this symptom nor do I think it is going to be an issue going forward. Sandybridge does not do well under LN2 so you are not going to see the big volts used on 155 and 1366 based boards. Its an overblown bunch of nothing! Mountain out of a mole hill kind of thing! Something for the doom and gloom crowd to cling to and point at. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskout Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 The socket was from Miahallen over at Techreaction in a blog that was so overblown its not funny. He got a board for review directly from Gigabyte that showed the problem. I have not had a board show this symptom nor do I think it is going to be an issue going forward. Sandybridge does not do well under LN2 so you are not going to see the big volts used on 155 and 1366 based boards. Its an overblown bunch of nothing! Mountain out of a mole hill kind of thing! Something for the doom and gloom crowd to cling to and point at. Good to know. I was getting worried, thinking that I might have to swap to AMD! lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
usaweapon777 Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 (edited) sigh... well I just got newegg's notice about this. Glad that they'll replace the boards once revisions are made. In the meanwhile I'm lucky in that I don't have enough devices to worry to much about this both of my hdd's run on the 6gb connectors. Oh well thats what happens when you spring for the new stuff. Edited February 2, 2011 by usaweapon777 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 You know at least Intel is stepping up and fixing the problem with the SATA controller Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
iskout Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 You know at least Intel is stepping up and fixing the problem with the SATA controller Don't suppose they really have much choice, though. If they don't do it, they risk losing a MASSIVE portion of their customers. They don't have a ton of options Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermes09 Posted February 2, 2011 Posted February 2, 2011 Don't suppose they really have much choice, though. If they don't do it, they risk losing a MASSIVE portion of their customers. They don't have a ton of options They sure don't. I mean, this Sandy Bridge release is what Intel fans have been waiting. and since it's release customers already bought at least hundred thousands of motherboard, they don't have much choice than fix and replace the motherboard that already purchased like iskout pointed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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