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More info?)
The problem is real, and Intel did recall the chip, but it's important
to note that it was a fabrication problem, not a design problem -- a
batch of the chips were not properly etched. That could have happened
with any chip.
mr. presley wrote:
> Yikes, I was unawares intel was having this problem. can't be good in the
> face of 939

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> "Tim" <Tim@NoSpam.com> wrote in message news:cdahmq$n5m$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
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>>There was reportedly a fabrication issue with the 915 / 925 chipsets.
>>According to a local reseller, Intel issued an advisory that motherboards
>>using these chips should not be sold - or words to that effect.
>>Between the media and everyone else, things have been deafeningly silent.
>>An Intel press release referred to some few thousand of these chips not
>>having been fabricated correctly.
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>>So, between the silence and non availability of the boards, one can only
>>speculate - and that never yields concrete results.
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>>- Tim
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>><DER@Southbeach.net> wrote in message
>>news:R6HJc.86588$MB3.26887@attbi_s04...
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>>>I've read all about Asus's new 925X Chipset Mobo, the P5AD2 Premium on
>>>their
>>>Web site, but I can find no vendor that has one for sale. Has anyone
>>>built
>>>a system with this Killer board? I can't wait to try this thing out.
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> Any
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>>>Help?
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