Intel Discloses Chip Glitch

[sygnus21]

that's what i thought, the first thing that came to my mind was "sandy brigdes" but then i re-read the article and "Intel 6 Series", have no idea what that means hehehe..

EDIT: nopes, i just read a latin article, Intel 6 Series: P67/H67..

The glitch it's in the Chipset, wow. that'll cost some bucks

The 6 series is indeed the motherboard chips....

the company said that testing has shown that ports in the Sandy Bridge chipset, which communicate with hard drives or DVD drives, may degrade over time. The Sandy Bridge chip itself is unaffected.

Market Watch - Intel

Definitely sounds like the motherboard's chipset.

 

[Zardoc]

After reading SEVERAL articles and forums threads, It's pretty clear that using 0/1 SATA 6GB/s ports is the way to go.

That's if they can get the marvell chip to work right. It's still not top knotch. I still get timeouts.

 

[sygnus21]

That's if they can get the marvell chip to work right. It's still not top knotch. I still get timeouts.

I have to agree. I don't trust the Marvell chipset and haven't even thought about putting my drives on them.

 

[SlackerITGuy]

After reading SEVERAL articles and forums threads, It's pretty clear that using 0/1 SATA 6GB/s ports is the way to go.

That's if they can get the marvell chip to work right. It's still not top knotch. I still get timeouts.

Yup.

But I'm gonna be using Intel's 0/1 SATA 6GB/s ports, not Marvell's.

 

[sygnus21]

From the following Cnet article, which if correct, clears up a lot, that it's the chipset.
Intel's Sandy Bridge chipset flaw: The fallout | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News

Good post.

I'd like to hear the toughts of some of our members here who already bought one of these systems and know what steps they plan on taking.

Thanks.

 

[Everlong]

After reading SEVERAL articles and forums threads, It's pretty clear that using 0/1 SATA 6GB/s ports is the way to go.

That's if they can get the marvell chip to work right. It's still not top knotch. I still get timeouts.

Yup.

But I'm gonna be using Intel's 0/1 SATA 6GB/s ports, not Marvell's.

That'll work for people who only use 2 SATA devices. Many have more, and when the 3GB/s ports are said to even affect optical drives, it doesn't really help them. I for one wouldn't really want to be sticking my blu-ray drive on there.

 

[Cr00zng]

While two SATA 3 ports, plus 2 with Marvell chipset, are not affected at this point, that isn't that many ports. Especially when half of them are wasted with DVD/BD drives...

The discovered error in the chip had to be serious for Intel to stop production. Resuming production and shipment of the fixed chip is probably around end of February, with bulk shipment commencing sometime in late March or early April. OEMs probably won't touch it until May.

Maybe this is the break what AMD needed...

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Hmmmmm just in time

Yeh came across this in Scott Muellers spot this morning and was just about to buy too -
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/31/intel-identifies-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution
how lucky can you get??

 

[GeneO]

That's if they can get the marvell chip to work right. It's still not top knotch. I still get timeouts.

I have to agree. I don't trust the Marvell chipset and haven't even thought about putting my drives on them.

The P67 chipset supports 2 6Gb/s SATA ports natively..

No problem with the Marvell here, though I don't have any SSD hooked up to it, only a SATA III system HDD.

I am sure some SATA III ports will suffice until the MB is RMAed. For HDD SATA II will be just as fast . So how many of you have more than two SSD drives? LOL.

 

[society misfit]

4 @%#$!* days after I bought a new board!!!

I’m not too worried though. Will talk to the store I bought it from tomorrow to see what they say.

 

[Sardonicus]

I bought a board from Newegg on 1-18-11.
So far they've pulled all Sandy Bridge processors and 1156 motherboards from the site, as of my typing this.
They've even disengaged the RMA check box on the P67 board I bought.

I hope my board is OK. I'll be checking with Gigabyte, soon.

 

[Lordbob75]

They better be offering to replace all the boards they shipped with this defect.

~Lordbob

 

[SlackerITGuy]

They better be offering to replace all the boards they shipped with this defect.

~Lordbob

They will mate.

 

[Lordbob75]

They better be offering to replace all the boards they shipped with this defect.

~Lordbob

They will mate.

Long as they get them out quick enough, I have no worries.

~Lordbob

 

[SlackerITGuy]

They better be offering to replace all the boards they shipped with this defect.

~Lordbob

They will mate.

Long as they get them out quick enough, I have no worries.

~Lordbob

I'm hearing late Feb/early March.

 

[win7clutz]

I'm not seeing this as real big deal... I'm running my SSD's on the 6Gb/s SATA ports and my DVD's on the 3Gb. The box is stable and screams so if it takes a few months to get an exchange board from Asus that's OK. If not I'll just wait for the Z68 chipset, upgrade and move on...

 

[SlackerITGuy]

I'm not seeing this as real big deal... I'm running my SSD's on the 6Gb/s SATA ports and my DVD's on the 3Gb. The box is stable and screams so if it takes a few months to get an exchange board from Asus that's OK. If not I'll just wait for the Z68 chipset, upgrade and move on...

Agreed.

Or wait for the EVGA ones (they won't have these issues [confirmed by their product manager]).

EVGA would be smart to release their P67 boards before recalling begins.

Just Sayin'...

 

[Everlong]

I'm not seeing this as real big deal... I'm running my SSD's on the 6Gb/s SATA ports and my DVD's on the 3Gb. The box is stable and screams so if it takes a few months to get an exchange board from Asus that's OK. If not I'll just wait for the Z68 chipset, upgrade and move on...

It won't happen overnight. Personally, I wouldn't want to have bought one of these boards and then find out it's life is severely shortened due to faulty circuitry.

They will mate.

Long as they get them out quick enough, I have no worries.

~Lordbob

I'm hearing late Feb/early March.

That appears to be when the new revision will be ready. The new parts won't be shipped until April if that's true. It appears all current boards will be replaced.

I'm not seeing this as real big deal... I'm running my SSD's on the 6Gb/s SATA ports and my DVD's on the 3Gb. The box is stable and screams so if it takes a few months to get an exchange board from Asus that's OK. If not I'll just wait for the Z68 chipset, upgrade and move on...

Agreed.

Or wait for the EVGA ones (they won't have these issues [confirmed by their product manager]).

EVGA would be smart to release their P67 boards before recalling begins.

Just Sayin'...

Well EVGA won't be able to release any "fixed" ones until the same time everyone else can.

 

[Airbot]

I bought a board from Newegg on 1-18-11.
So far they've pulled all Sandy Bridge processors and 1156 motherboards from the site, as of my typing this.
They've even disengaged the RMA check box on the P67 board I bought.

I hope my board is OK. I'll be checking with Gigabyte, soon.

Not sure if you saw this yet posted 3 hours ago, but there it is..

https://twitter.com/#!/Newegg/status/32219208079118337

 

[Sardonicus]

I bought a board from Newegg on 1-18-11.
So far they've pulled all Sandy Bridge processors and 1156 motherboards from the site, as of my typing this.
They've even disengaged the RMA check box on the P67 board I bought.

I hope my board is OK. I'll be checking with Gigabyte, soon.

Not sure if you saw this yet posted 3 hours ago, but there it is..

https://twitter.com/#!/Newegg/status/32219208079118337

It looks like the page has been pulled.