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#1: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: Silent_Wolf, Location: Loveland, Colorado PostPosted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 4:52 pm
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The Intel Sandy Bridge flaw that is affecting the Cougar Point chipset variants has been pinpointed. A phone call between Intel’s VP and Director of Intel Client PC Operations and Enabling, Steve Smith and Anand Lai Shimpi of Anandtech has revealed that this issue lies with a transistor in the 3Gbps PLL clocking tree. The transistor is leaking current, which can cause the 3Gbps SATA ports to lose performance or fail completely. The 6Gbps ports are unaffected by the issue as they have independent clocking trees.

The recall has affected all of Intel’s H67 and P67 6-series desktop chipsets and will delay the shipment of desktops using the chipsets by around one month. The manufacturing glitch will also result in a $700 million hit to Intel’s bottom line as it seeks to rectify the problem. Companies affected by the recall will include Apple, Dell and HP who all use full-power desktop versions of Intel’s processors.



#2: Re: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: WolfFang, Location: Kentucky PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 4:39 pm
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Whoo had me worried there for a sec, I am planning on redoing my rig with my tax refund and I was looking at the ASUS P7H57D-V board. When I first read this I thought it had that chip set. Thought I was gonna hafta go hunting for another one.
#3: Re: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: bil4short, Location: Denver, Colorado PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:16 pm
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SilentWolf,

I read something about this but didn't follow it.  Thanks for the details though!

WolfFang, nice dodge!
#4: Re: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: RifleDan, Location: Quebec, Canada PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:34 pm
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Yeah !  Sad
Tell me about it....
My new pc order have been pushed back to the end of feb-mid march....
No black ops for me till then.
Crying or Very sad  Crying or Very sad  Crying or Very sad
#5: Re: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: Luke, Location: Grand Rapids, MI PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:37 pm
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The problem is not the chip them selves but the board they are put into was bad. The chip is still sound and only if you got a specific run of the chip do you have a problem. They are also doing a great job giving refunds for the bad set.

So to recap the chips are fine the boards they where put into where faulty and degraded when they heated up.

GOA.Luke*BK*
#6: Re: If you were thinking about it, dont........ Author: Silent_Wolf, Location: Loveland, Colorado PostPosted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:16 pm
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Luke is right, we are trashing about 100 motherboards from intel because of this issue.  There isnt a issue with the i3,i5,i7 series of prox its the new motherboards that were suppose to make the prox run better.
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