Recent content by bcterps

They don't have my board in stock yet (Asus P8P67M Pro). I'm going on vacation for the first 2 weeks of May, so I'm not sure what's going to happen if they don't get my board in stock.... I might have to do a swap directly with Asus, but I prefer not to... Is May 15th the last day you can...

Is this different than the Morrowind 2011 mod pack that came out in January? It got shut down because mod creators complained about their mods being included without their permission.

I'm not sure when MC is going to carry my replacement board (P8P67M-Pro), not even listed on their site currently. I could go through Asus, but I'm hoping that the Z68 boards might be out by the time MC actually gets around to stocking my board and then I'll upgrade to one of those.

I just built a new rig so I thought it would be cool to try this out on the PC (I played the first one on the 360). Only got a little bit of play time in yesterday, but the camera is probably the most annoying part of the game so far. I get the feeling I would have liked this much more on the...

Yup, my code doesn't work. Disputing it on eBay will make a difference, I expect they will make me whole if I don't get a refund.

Man, I hope my code still works, I can't access steam from work (damn firewall). If it doesn't then I'll just dispute it on eBay. If I'm out $2.50, so be it...

I wasn't able to get in, but eBay was flooded with codes so I bought one for $2.50. Still a good deal IMO :)

Ah, thanks!

No word from Asus yet... I hope they step up and do something similar to Gigabyte.

This is a reasonably big deal for me. I built a mATX system with the best mATX board available (Asus P8P67-M Pro), and it only has 3 available SATA slots (2x6GB, 1xMarvell). With a SSD and a DVD drive, that really limits my ability to expand. Because it's an mATX board, I also have less PCI...

It's actually a design issue, not a mfg issue, according to Anand's latest update. Some engineer screwed up big time... http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug

This issue ONLY occurred in the second stepping. "To make matters worse, the problem was inserted at the B-stepping of the 6-series chipsets. Earlier steppings (such as what we previewed last summer) didn’t have the problem. Unfortunately for Intel, only B-stepping chipsets shipped to...

Given the breadth of this issue (impact on sales, margins, and earnings), it would also be illegal for them to cover it up.

Wouldn't a faulty controller continue to access the SATA device over and over until the data was transferred? Maybe I don't understand the architecture behind it, but I would imagine that the SATA device would be under more stress in this situation vs a normal situation. Maybe not a big deal...

The Intel press release is vague. "the Serial-ATA (SATA) ports within the chipsets may degrade over time, potentially impacting the performance or functionality of SATA-linked devices such as hard disk drives and DVD-drives" I read that as saying that the hard drives or disk drives could...