yes.its better that way or you might had to send it to RMA just after 2 month.

hahaha

i was just being sarcastic man

msi gt680 kene jugak? planning to buy next month...

Well, you should've put a smiley or [/sarcasm] then.

All sandy bridge products includes desktop, notebook and servers affected. Even Mac Pros will have to wait longer.

how about the affected HDD??should i send it to RMA too?? ..is there any other solution??too long to wait the april..xkan sampai bulan april xbukak pc.. pengsan.. ..

Intel losing a lot of money here, not to mention all the OEMs/Manufacturers that are pissed by this fiasco, not yet including the end-users of course.

Kind of reminds me of the TLP processor bug on AMD a few years back.

got some news saying that intel will be replacing all those affected mobo which is from end-users.

No lar, you can still continue using it but just using the sata 6mbps port that is not affected. From the info i gather, the intel sataII problem will not affect your HDD, just that there will potentially be some data corruption or the performance will suffer. On the safe side, just using the sata 6 mbps port.

It is not like it will damage all the parts in your cpu. Just wait for an annoucement from the mobo manufacturer on what will they do to replace the mobo(if they decided to).

a recall is the best case.
they just need to remove the P67 chip and replace a new revise version, run some test and they are good to go.

but the rework of removing the P67 chip from the mobo will actually affect the reliability of the board as it will need to pass through reflow another 2 times, 1 to remove the chip, 1 to attach a new chip.

LOL..it's not that easy as plug and play yo. Many boards die after that.

If the motherboard die, I think Gigabyte has the better ideas how to make use of phailed motherboards...

Click here

Actually, here's a question..

HOW many of you guys here ACTUALLY uses a SSD as a boot drive?
I belief the majority are still on mechanical HDDs, which can't even saturate a 3Gbps port to begin with.

So.. really, JUST use the 3gbps ports?

No, the 3gbps ports are having problems, that is why many of us here are recommended to switch our to the 6gbps ports to avoid any data loss or corruption that may arise.

i bet that most of you after reading this kind of news will run some test, either using atto, sisoft or whatsoever, and find out that their "performance" read/write of hdd will "drop". of course, and most of you will get "placebo effect syndrom". right now i don't see any problem of my sata ports, because:

1. using 1 hard disk and one dvd-rw, both connected to sata0 & 1 which is sata3.0
2. based on my records, i use so-called latest technology, which the existing system will stands for a year (previous board, processor sold after 1 years usage, the previous before this previous used only 4 months )

since they said "within 3 years", i don't care. the only thing i care is i registered my product(motherboard) with asus and they should track me down if replacement is available.

in the future, i hope that intel will design their southbridge that can be plugged in/out like a processor, ram and others. or just move the southbridge into processor die like northbridge.

If i switch from 3GBps to 6, will there be any problem? Just plug in then check in bios?

no problem, just do it.

This is seriously getting me worried, as I plan to use this rig for 7yrs or 10yrs. Hopfully they can do direct 1 to 1 exchange for new mobo. Not regular RMA with refurbished parts/mobo. My AthlonXP lasted me 8yrs b4 its mobo fail.

This post has been edited by billytong: Feb 1 2011, 09:05 PM

The problem only affects SATA port 2 to 5. SATA 0 and 1 is not affected. If you don't use a lot of hard disks, u are fine. Go read this again.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/intel-d...t-begins-recall