Lets not mentioned the logistics cost involves when RMA. I dont think those companies/distro will cover both sides of postage for us.

Same feeling here. if Asus didnt do this, they can kiss good bye for any of my future purchase.

yeah thanks, next thing is wait for April and how to identify the new mobo is a FIXED version. I cant be removing the heatsink to see the chipset revision or switching on the mobo on the spot to view it.

No its not small amount. If you divide that 700m for each Intel employee, *assuming data from Wikipedia is accurate Each of Intel's 84K employee will lost over 8K bonus. I say their test engineers getting every intel employee butthurt lol

This post has been edited by billytong: Feb 2 2011, 09:36 PM

Problem is you cant open ur mobo when u are receiving from distro. (*I dont trust them)

The only hope is Vendor to get a revision number printed on the mobo PCB itself.

Intel really gave us a "good Ang Pow" b4 CNY.

Its good to know they actually act a lot faster than I expect.

Only drawback from Asus Announcement is they only do swapping at best no refund. If they offer full refund like Gigabyte had, I probably would have take the refund option and swap for Z68 when it arrives.

Well for you data corruption may be is no big deal, I guess formating/recovery 5 times PC + reinstall all program 5 times is ok. I even had 2 of my application corrupted twice each and one of them have saves files that is corrupted. So all these seems ok for u right? not for me. I dont have time for this shit.

Just like Cherroy said, some of us really cares about data corruptions, and the issue gets worst if ur backup is corrupted as well. The importance of this is really up to individual.

I am not sure if all the trouble I had exp on my sandy platform is related to this sata issue or not since I am not intel engineer to verify it. But in my exp I never had this much issue in such a short amount of time on a PC since winXp era. Dont tell me to port to sata3, because for some unknown reason my sata3 seems to perform unreasonable slow,(*took 10min to boot win7) which overrall worst than sata2. I have yet to try the 3rd party sata, May be I'll try again later when I got time or recheck the sata3 problem. But for now I have no choice but to wait the new chipset since most mobo are recalled. No offence dont say no big deal base on reading/benchmark unless you own a mobo or u face one with a problem urself. Cheers.

The problem exp by each user is totally random, some of them exp more problems, some of them are lucky to have no prob. you cant blame some forumer here especially some of them who are less tech literate & do not know what will happen after reading that news. I can understand their *panic mode, if I am the mr dont know PC tech guy i probably do the same.

This post has been edited by billytong: Feb 5 2011, 09:11 PM

dont seems to be the HDD prob, as it was running perfectly well for 6 months on my old rig. but thanks for asking, I'll deal with it when I got time.

its running "OK" for now. Lets hope this is my last trouble.

You might as well wait Z68. *if it wasnt gonna be delay it will come by Q2, which is not far away from End of April.

having extra onchip(*on CPU) VGA can be handy sometimes if you VGA is down

While I agree with you that customer will not be buying it if they aware of this issue.

but if that mobo have only 2x Sata 3 port. It wouldnt affect it in anyway. but I am curious what kind of mobo these days got only 2 sata port. Other than notebook.

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Added on February 10, 2011, 9:12 pmI tell u wat, put SSD,optical on sata3, put HDD on marvel Sata2 Green color one. JUst put whatever drive that u need to boot for sata3.

This post has been edited by billytong: Feb 10 2011, 09:12 PM

u wont get Z68 by march. June/july may be.

To be honest, I am quite surprise too, I had all sort of random crash problem when I use Sata2, since switching to my sata3 havent had any problems.

I heard most major manufacturer pay for ur 2 way postage fees, so why give the fuss about bothering Retailers, just request local distro to send u the package for collections and wait for ur new board, right?

but one thing is the Asus "B3" stepping identifier is not really secure, they should have printed the B3 directly to the mobo PCB, not on box,sticker.

This post has been edited by billytong: Feb 28 2011, 01:03 PM

stockpile in half a month of manufacturing? thats massive I say.

if it is true, I say us users should be getting replaced easily here in no time, may be in 2weeks +/-

There isn't any much news on Z68, I think it would much later than what you heard. The only diff in Z68 is allowing you to use onchip IGP + possible SSD cache. Other than that everything is the same. May be you might wanna use the quick sync in Sandy bridge for video encoding, but I say I'll pass on this at least for me.

Onchip IGP isnt any special unless all these 3 companies, Intel, AMD, Nvidia can come up a solution where u can use onchip IGP to add "performance" over the discrete graphic card. However I dont think the small performance gain would worth the trouble.

So the swap is available now in Malaysia?

Gonna need to swap my sabertooth with my seller soon.

Where is Asus Malaysia btw? might be good to swap directly 1 to 1 on same day if they allow to swap @ distro.

Think I gonna wait for Z68. I might need that quick sync feature. Been doing movie encoding a lot lately.

Too bad, buddy, thats how cruel the real world works. Infact I even think Asus "being" below Intel also have to bear some losses. As far as I know Intel ONLY cover the chipset losses, any logistic, refurbished losses seems to bear by Asus.

Even us as customer have loss our time, COD petrol with seller too.

it is an unfortunately event. but well for me the refund policy seems to be a good opportunity for me to gain Access to Z68, then I have more warranty than b4 since it resets.

This post has been edited by billytong: Mar 13 2011, 02:27 PM

None so far, all my old CD-RW,DVD-RW are useless now.

or rely on USB as external drive.

Mine Sabertooth doesnt come with IDE :S