Sandy Bridge design flaw - Intel halted on NASDAQ - updated 2/8/11.

[StrangerGuy]

Wanna bet with me that the actual problem manifests worse than what Intel says so? *looks at i820 fiasco*

 

[ribkage7]

This entire thing really stinks. I was planning for a new rig Im building mid February. The suckier part is that I would never use more than the 2 6gb SATA ports to begin with. 1 bluray/dvd burner, 1 monstrous hard drive.

So now that socket 1155 no longer exists (Id only order from newegg) whats the next best intel option for price/performace?

I really do have to build another pc by march since my son and I are going to be playing Rift together and his current pc barely runs it and is 8 years old now (almost as old as him lol).

 

[Diogenes2]

So now that socket 1155 no longer exists (Id only order from newegg) whats the next best intel option for price/performace?

You are really limiting yourself..

Amazon is still selling boards and CPU's and they have a more flexible return policy than Newegg does.
Their prices are very competitive as well..

 

[ribkage7]

You are really limiting yourself..

Amazon is still selling boards and CPU's and they have a more flexible return policy than Newegg does, and their prices are very competitive..

You know what, Im actually embarrassed. I never thought about ordering pc parts from amazon and I literally buy almost everything from there.

 

[PingSpike]

I research all my parts on newegg, but Amazon has a good selection. Their search just isn't as flexible as neweggs and their information about a product isn't as good. That said, their user reviews are actually pretty good.

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

how about a 19ghz 6core?
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Desktops/No-monitor/auction-350898224.htm

 

[HumblePie]

Glad I bought the asrock fatal1ty board. It has 4 extra marvel 6GB sataIII ports so I have a total of 6 ports I can still use.

Should be fine until a replacement comes out.

 

[Hogan773]

You know what, Im actually embarrassed. I never thought about ordering pc parts from amazon and I literally buy almost everything from there.

just DONT buy a HDD from Amazon. I saw a million negative reviews saying they just throw the HDD in a cardboard box with no bubble wrap or anything and its just bonking around in the box when you get it.

 

[Hogan773]

When you purchase *any new advanced product, you'll always be the final beta test team with the only difference being... you payed for the privilege.
Everyone who jumped in will get corrected boards with the only exception being if you dealt with a low-ball retailer...then good luck, I'm sure we'll hear the crying here.

I'm not sure that the recall will be thru the retailer. I'd bet its through the manufacturer (ASUS, GB etc)

 

[thilanliyan]

Everything.. Especially IPC and memory bandwidth

So synthetic benchmarks basically...

Like I said I bet most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference in day to day stuff. The only time you WOULD be able to tell the difference is maybe in encoding or rendering. Do you do a lot of that?

 

[MrBond]

just DONT buy a HDD from Amazon. I saw a million negative reviews saying they just throw the HDD in a cardboard box with no bubble wrap or anything and its just bonking around in the box when you get it.

A bit off topic, but I've purchased at least four HDD's from Amazon and of the four that I can remember, three were packed in a "box in a box" - with the smaller box having the two molded plastic "cages" that slip over the ends of the drive and keep it suspended in the smaller box. I haven't bought a retail drive in YEARS, but the last one I did buy used the same style packaging.

The other one was wrapped up in bubble wrap, exactly like the optical drives I ordered from Newegg that were packed the same way.

There is some variety in packing methods though - I bought two of the exact same Samsung drive on two separate orders, one was bubble wrapped and the other was in the "cage".

Amazon knows Newegg is competition and they are usually competitive on price. They were more expensive on MB/CPU's when I build my rig last month, so those parts came from Newegg.

 

[coloumb]

Man..this reminds me of the Pentium fiasco from many years back. At least Intel is being consumer friendly this time around...

 

[Nintendesert]

just DONT buy a HDD from Amazon. I saw a million negative reviews saying they just throw the HDD in a cardboard box with no bubble wrap or anything and its just bonking around in the box when you get it.

Newegg has a bigger reputation for treating HDDs like shit than Amazon does. I hate buying HDDs from Newegg due to how they poorly package them. Especially the OEM drives.

 

[Meghan54]

Newegg has a bigger reputation for treating HDDs like shit than Amazon does. I hate buying HDDs from Newegg due to how they poorly package them. Especially the OEM drives.

+1...at a minimum. The man speaketh the truth.


As for this "debacle" that Intel has on its hands right now, while the enthusiast community seems to be either in a lather about it or running around like Chicken Little, the market doesn't seem to hold the same opinion of how dire this recall is.

Intel's stock closed yesterday barely down at a loss of 0.05 and is up 0.13 today as I write this, trading at $21.59, up from the open of $21.46. Guess Wall Street doesn't see this as such the catastrophe that some here do.

But it seems maybe part of this is the fact Intel moved quickly to issue the recall notice after finding/verifying the problem.

 

[Schmide]

Intel's stock closed yesterday barely down at a loss of 0.05 and is up 0.13 today as I write this, trading at $21.59, up from the open of $21.46. Guess Wall Street doesn't see this as such the catastrophe that some here do.

Makes you wonder if this is the day they decided to do the full recall?

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel Corp.'s board of directors increased the amount of money that the company is authorized to spend buying back its shares by $10 billion, increasing the overall outstanding stock buyback authorization to $14.2 billion, the company said Monday (Jan. 24).

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212459/Intel-ups-stock-buybacks--declares-dividend

 

[Seero]

Hmm, nice knowing you Sandy. Hello Ivy!

 

[joe_H]

You are really limiting yourself..

Amazon is still selling boards and CPU's and they have a more flexible return policy than Newegg does.
Their prices are very competitive as well..

Be careful. I purchased my P8P67 from Amazon on Sunday...was shipped Monday morning before the news broke. What I'm seeing on Amazon now is sold from sellers other than Amazon (partner sellers). My board was from Amazon itself. I don't know if the same RMA rules apply, but I don't think Amazon itself is selling the boards or chips anymore.

 

[Martimus]

Makes you wonder if this is the day they decided to do the full recall?



http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212459/Intel-ups-stock-buybacks--declares-dividend

I am wondering if that is considered insider trading, and whether it is illegal or not?

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Makes you wonder if this is the day they decided to do the full recall?



http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212459/Intel-ups-stock-buybacks--declares-dividend

Exactly thats what I was saying the whole time. Stocks plummeted couple of hours and went up again why did they go up so fast? when someone buys them

 

[jiffylube1024]

Wanna bet with me that the actual problem manifests worse than what Intel says so? *looks at i820 fiasco*

Wow yeah that's going back a ways. I remember that! Intel designed the board around RDRAM, only RDRAM was stupidly expensive and delayed, so they modified it to work with SDRAM, only the new SDRAM converter chip was flaky.

 

[ilkhan]

Note to self: keep using my 2500K system and buy Intel stock.

 

[aigomorla]

Can i see how many people who are actually ranting even own a Sandy Bridge system?

And those of you who do own them, are u even using the black sata connectors and not the blue ones?

(god people u got me defending Sandy Bridge, when i was a prime leader on the march against it.. lolz... irony for ya..)

In short, are u using the old sata connectors over the sata3?

Now im tempted to run a system on the SATA2's on my M4E just to see how long it lasts.

Exactly what would i need to do? Apply high amount of voltage on passive air with no air flow so it runs in harsh conditions under heavy load? Check..

Umm... wait... does those conditions apply to anyone who posted here once again?

 

[spacejamz]

Can i see how many people who are actually ranting even own a Sandy Bridge system?

And those of you who do own them, are u even using the black sata connectors and not the blue ones?

(god people u got me defending Sandy Bridge, when i was a prime leader on the march against it.. lolz... irony for ya..)

In short, are u using the old sata connectors over the sata3?

Now im tempted to run a system on the SATA2's on my M4E just to see how long it lasts.

Exactly what would i need to do? Put an insane amount of voltage on passive air with no air flow?

Umm... wait... does those conditions apply to anyone who posted here once again?

On my Asus P8P67 board, I am using two dark blue ones (Marvell 6Gbps) for my SSD and 2TB drive, two grey ones (Intel 6Gbps) for my BD drive and 1TB drive and one grey one (Intel 3Gbps) for my front eSata port.

 

[aigomorla]

On my Asus P8P67 board, I am using two dark blue ones (Marvell 6Gbps) for my SSD and 2TB drive, two grey ones (Intel 6Gbps) for my BD drive and 1TB drive and one grey one (Intel 3Gbps) for my front eSata port.

have u had problems yet?

 

[Axon]

I'm still running one drive off a standard SATA 2. Everything is fine so far. I would think the problem doesn't happen overnight and is more towards the rare side of things, as Intel has indicated. Still, I'll be getting an RMA when the time comes.