Sandy Bridge Debacle: What It Means for You

[pacioli]

All the major vendors have removed all things Sandy Bridge from their websites and shelves. You can no longer buy Sandy Bridge processors or Sandy Bridge compatible motherboards until April...

 

[forensic computer guy]

I just bought an i7 2600k & an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe that has 2 Intel SATA 6Gb/s, 2 Marvell SATA 6Gb/s (both unaffected) and 4 Intel SATA 3Gb/s (affected... supposedly, i mean they work fine for my dvd-burner) and 2 unaffected JMicron eSATA 3Gb/s(unaffected... and unused by me)...if you got the deluxe just don't use the light blue SATA ports with a harddrive until you can RMA under warranty and get a new board quicker than now... use that sandy bridge until Intel is done fixing the SATA controller... your in an exclusive club of a small percentage of people that have a blazing fast machine... and nobody can compete with you for a few months until they can buy an 1155 again... its a big deal for Intel, not for you... like a previous poster said, worst case... you go buy a PCIe or PCI sata controller

 

[Cache]

I have to give Intel some kudos here--this is how you do damage control. It would have been too easy to have them say your computer is holding the hard drive wrong or something, but they have owned up to the problem, are tackling at fixing it.

Really, if more tech companies handled things this way, the tech world would be much better off.

 

[roflmaonow]

@forensic computer guy

I agree about the being in a exclusive club. I built a i5 2500K with the GB P67A UD3 and have enjoyed it immensely for the past 2 weeks. I have had no issues so far and am really glad that I took the plunge.

I'm not too worried about the chipset bug, and many of my friends at work are very jealous of my machine and some of them were about to go ahead and take the plunge regardless of the bug today, but were unable to do so.

 

[jimslaid2]

I had the intel 2500k cpu and a msi p67 mobo in my cart and the cpu was removed. Arghh! I'm not buying anything else! I will wait!

 

[admore]

I'd like to point out one thing - the flaw is in the chipset, not in the SB processor (according to Intel). Therefore go ahead and get your SB processor, get a 6Gb/s drive. There would seem to be little problem. You may need to get a new mobo, and you probably will get one.

Anyone notice that the P67 mobos on gigabytes site now say (Rev 1.0) by their descriptions? That's the only acknowledgement I could find of this problem on their site.

 

[travman733]

Less than a week and my P67 board is minus one SATA II port. Event viewer all-of-a-sudden threw dozens of "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0" errors every second. Moved my dvd drive to another SATA II port and so-far so-good. Personally I wouldn't have a problem receiving a 4-port SATA II PCIe x1 card, but either way I need a permanent fix as I have too many devices installed to have ports keep failing.

 

[Guest]

Intel said: 5%

The same Intel that bribes review sites into making it look like a 10-20% advantage with their chips is actually noticeable in real life.

The same Intel that bribes OEMs into not launching competing products.

The same Intel that bribes synthetic benchmark software writers into using ICC to compile their benchmark software.


Seeing as how Intel is allergic to honest business practices, this must be a helluva lot worse than what they're saying it is.

 

[edilee]

[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]Strike with what? Bulldozer? been hearing about that for what 2 years now? I'll bet real moneny when it does come out at some point in time this year it will lag well behind SandyBridge leaving AMD a generation behind....again. I didn't plan on a new system built until May but it wouldn't matter to me since I'll be using the 6 Gb/s ports anyway. I never buy/build a new system until the latest and greatest has been in the field a few months.[/citation]

It seems someone has forgotten or is unaware that Intel was playing catch up to AMD a while back....there is absolutely no reason why this can't/won't happen again. I like AMD and have used them for my last 3 builds but my next build is going to be an Intel since Intel holds the top spot right now...see I am not biased.

This will not be good for Intel and even though it will only effect 5% of the machines..you bet 100% of the consumers will want replacement hardware to make sure they don't end up in the 5% category. Shame cause the SB CPU's are flat out awesome and priced right.

 

[kjdesigns]

[citation][nom]znegval[/nom]Time for AMD to strike. It's now or never.[/citation]

I guess it won't be "NOW", AMD would be too busy partying right now.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

[citation][nom]1ni3shi[/nom]I guess this isn't the real problem with SB, the REAL problem with SB is it doesn't play Crysis.[/citation]

It does play Crysis..With the help of a good GPU.

 

[retirepresident]

intel Scam Wall St. Stock went down. LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL. AMD and ATI ONLY. Paid Back is a B!+(H. Lose 700 million more like 1.4 billion.

 

[retirepresident]

intel keep cutting corners. Its sound like intel is having $$$$$$ problems. Can't paid they CEO more $$$$$$. Asus,intel owns Gigabyte, MSI and are @#$% piss off.

 

[descendency]

Sadly, AMD is so far behind, you won't see Bulldozer until well after Sandy Bridge is back on shelves.

 

[chaos133]

For those that are worried about this it only effects SATA 3gb/s ports, just plug your SATA HDDs in the SATA 6gb/s ports. Or you could get a PCIe SATA card. Problem solved without the hassle of returning your motherboards.

 

[rhino13]

No bonuses this year.

 

[Guest]

i have been a system bulder for 15 years and in my experience yes intel can give you better performance but for a price.The release of sandy bridge was actually the first time that Intel was giving something good in performance/price and sadly its not a reliable system yet.On the other hand Amd was always the best choice for the price plus every AMD system that i have built in the past 10 years still works.
Let's just hope that AMDs Bulldozer cpu will be as good as Intel's.Oh and btw for the non believers Fusion owns Atom atm.

 

[suryasans]

AMD products are craps. Even Pointer of computingintensive blog knew that.

 

[rantoc]

Intel handles the problem well it seems, not just dismiss the problem with "your socket holds the cpu wrong!" =)

 

[vladtepes]

Talk about bad naming. I wouldn't walk or drive over a "Sandy Bridge"

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

What a mess!

 

[Guest]

Sandy Bridge.. how apt the name.

 

[wawa sxm]

Looks like online stores are not selling them anymore....its a shame i want one and don't really care about that problem as two 6gb sata ports is all i'll ever need. i should have bought it yesterday, i was holding on thinkings prices will drop (especially for the mobo)but it looks like they've pulled everything! 🙁

 

[jecastej]

[citation][nom]davewolfgang[/nom]Just wondering - have you gotten any "official" emails yet from ASUS about your modo (if you registered it)? (I know it was only reported today - but some might be trying to get ahead of the game)Or let us know in the coming weeks if you get anything in snail mail - so we can gauge how the mobo manufacturers are handling it.[/citation]

Ok, absolutely. I haven't registered yet my MOBO with ASUS because I am still installing and testing software and devises, and because I am doing my work but I will do it very soon to get the emails from ASUS, maybe today. As soon as I receive any news I will share them with you.

 

[el_bastardo74]

wow, good thing i decided to just add a new gpu to my almost new rig instead of getting building a whole new rig with sb.