Sandy Bridge Debacle: What It Means for You

[sredmon]

I purchased my video card, power supply, case and Intel Core i5-2500k from Fry's on Sunday and I just received my ASUS P8P67 Deluxe motherboard from NewEgg today, 2/1/11! I was actually showing it off to a co-worker when he mentioned the recall. I'm pissed to say the least!

 

[Manos]

I am currently in Greece again. Its 02:24 and since i always work at nights.. yeah im at work. Earlier I was out looking for Maximus IV Extreme and since I couldnt find it AGAIN today anywhere is why I didnt buy it along the rest of the hardware Ive been wanting too for my new rig.

THANK GOD!

 

[back_by_demand]

I am soooo glad I bought a Core i7 2 years ago, not even thinking about an upgrade yet. Fortunately this bug only affects people who have more money than sense.

 

[Guest]

Damit I was just starting new build now have to wait till april. Is it worth the wait?

 

[Guest]

I was about to get a SB system in ibuypower...what should I do? wait? or get a p55 or p68 system? amd ? .. please help.

 

[Blessedman]

Call me crazy, but if the chipset market was as open as it was back in the day, this would have never made such an impact. Via would have seen this flaw and corrected it with their own chipset clone. Intel wants to have all the profits, that is fine, but they also have to shelter all of the losses. If AMD can't take advantage of this situation...

 

[loubarouba]

To note, I bought an Asus p8p67 and it is now down. It went from great speed (2weeks ago) to super slow (2 days ago)to now it won't read the drive upon boot (earlier today), and btw it is a SATA 6 gb/s drive (WD1002FAEX) as my main boot hd so when they say that the SATA 6gb/s isn't affected, that's totally not true, it most certainly is affected. Sure hope they get the fix out soon as it is much needed.

btw @jecastej wth are u talking about a year..tell that to my rma'd board lol

 

[BulkZerker]

[citation][nom]vladtepes[/nom]Talk about bad naming. I wouldn't walk or drive over a "Sandy Bridge"[/citation]

Especially when there's a bulldozer near by!

[citation][nom]rpmrush[/nom]It only bugs 5% of chipsets! Stop freaking out. Buy if your ready. Performance degradation over time. It's not gonna blow up. And it's throuput performance at that. A cheap sata card will circumvent it if your one of the small %. NO BIG DEAL! Hell just buy a 6G/s (Sata 3) hard drive if your that worried.[/citation]


If you do the simple math, that's 1 in 20 that's effected. How happy would you be if you bought a brand new car, and there was a recall that effected 1 in 20 of the ones produced. 1 in 20 having an issue with the car not producing the advertised output due to a bad batch of piston rings? I'd be pissed!

5% is HUGE especially considering the last debacle involving storage that I can recall is Hitachi and their "deathstar" HDDs and the failure rate on those was half this.

 

[asteldian]

Call me odd but I for one am glad I bought my Sandy Bridge already. 2 in fact. I would hate to have to wait until April. I will enjoy it and if there are free recalls send it back come the time, if not I will buy a SATA II reader...maybe. Currently I use 1 DVD Drive and 1 HDD drive. So I will just stick them in the 6gb/s sockets and all should be good (though I note the person a few posts above had an issue thre, hopefully that is a seperate problem)

 

[wawa sxm]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]I am soooo glad I bought a Core i7 2 years ago, not even thinking about an upgrade yet. Fortunately this bug only affects people who have more money than sense.[/citation]

why because in 2 to 3years your hdd will be slower...ever taugh of gettin a sata expansion card or using the 6gb ports? im so glad i didnt get an i7 2years ago but got a sandy bridge last week

 

[Guest]

This comes out two weeks after i have my new machine built.. great! my first Intel build and could be the last

 

[remlore]

Well I Have 2 2600K systems running @ 5 gighz stable with +212 HS and 16 gigs of 1600 XMP ram, SSD on the Sata6 (well why would i use a SSD rated over 300MB/sec on a Sata2 anyway ? 😉 ) MSI P67 MObo and the system completely kicks ass! stock for stock speed, 30% faster than my core i7 1366 .. and at 5 gighz, it on par with are dual xeon system. i'm getting 9.84 On cinebench, the dual xeons is at 10.54 ( but the 2x 12 cores smokes it obviously...) with temps under 80 (100% all 8 threads) .. runs maya and realflow fine... so i'm not at a panic.. don't use sata2 anyhoooooooo.. 😛 Def. helped my workflow in the 3d world.. even runs NAIAD & Houdini (only in Linux). We're running High-end fluid sims and the processor simply kicks ass.. no issues. I must admit, they run real cool and the memory allocation problems we had with the other rigs is gone... the cpu is more efficient with the L3 to Ram than before... what took 16 gigs of ram to do, we can do with 4 believe it or not... using an SSD to page of course... I wouldn't worry about it. Get the rig! Just make sure you get all the updated bios & drivers and only run Sata6... buwwwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooow!

 

[davewolfgang]

In perusing the news sites today - this is actually going to get worse for Intel because of horrible and BAD reporting.

I just read three entire stories where not ONE of them made mention that it's actually the chipset on the mobo's that's the problem. It read like it was the actually SB processors themselves that had the problem.