AMD issues first ever recall

[Viditor]

Recall story

Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual, high-temperature circumstance

Very cautious of them, and the timing sure sucks...

 

[formulav8]

IIRC, this problem has Never been experienced outside of AMD's Labs. So, it shouldn't be any problems to just simply recall the few that are out there.


Jason

 

[Thor86]

Is this the dreaded shutdown issue with high Ghz clocks? Good thing they didn't list 146s. 🙂

 

[MrFanel]

This issue is highly rare and only affects x54 and x52 single core opteron procs. Basically, if you run a specific FPU intensive app, the proc will first go nuclear, then just shutdown on you. If you run commercial appz (web server, etc), it doesn't really affect you.

 

[Zap]

Just use a better cooler! 😉

 

[buzzsaw13]

Originally posted by: Zap
Just use a better cooler! 😉

Some people like using the stock HSF 😛

(I use a Zalman cooler 😀 )

 

[Shenkoa]

Coolers are expensive.

 

[BrownTown]

Its funny how tiny little problems that will never actually happen in real life become such a big deal. Of course Intel got screwed with it before, so AMD decided it was best to get ahead of the issue and give out replacements. Honestly, if i had one of these procs i wouldnt even go threw the hassle to replace it.

 

[sonoran]

Originally posted by: Zap
Just use a better cooler! 😉

This is on Opterons. Businesses buying servers expect them to work straight out of the box. They don't go playing with the heat sink...