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Worth it to rma my SB mobo?

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Xellos2099

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I got a question, I got the Asus p8p67 pro Sandy mobo at launch and now the rma mobo is available. I currently put my 2 hdd to the sata 3 and my dvd drive to the affected sata 2 slot. Is it worth it to rma the mobo? TBH, I am not sure if It is worth the hassle of rebuilding my system.
 
Depends if you ever want to add additional hard drives or other SATA devices. I guess you could always buy a SATA controller card. I just rebuilt mine from the recall, and it took all of 30 minutes. I had to because Gigabyte is dropping BIOS updates and support for the recalled boards. I think Asus is still going to support theirs.
 
The only real issue with the pre-recall MB's is that the 3GB/s SATA 2 ports "may" fail on you. If I recall correctly, it's like a 5-10% chance of failure in 2 years under typical usages. Now if you overclock the heck out of the system and make everything run hotter, or maybe run a high-cycle database RAID on the SATA2 ports, the chances of the SATA 2 ports failing sooner occur. However, if you are the typical PC owner or even a mild overclocker (aka, doesn't bump the voltage on every single thing in the BIOS), it's still a pretty low chance of failure for a two year period.

90%+ of winning (AKA "not" failing in two years) is a pretty damn-good Vegas bet and if you are really worried about it, just make sure you don't hook up irreplaceable data drives on the SATA 2 ports. On my P67 Gigabyte pre-recall MB, I use the SATA3 ports for my OS and important stuff, and stick things like movie/game files on the SATA 2 ports. if the SATA 2 ports fail and corrupt my movie/game HD, it aint that big a deal. As of yet, no issues and I do OC to a reasonable 4.2Ghz under stock voltage. If all you have is a DVD drive hooked up to the SATA 2 port, the worst case is that you have a 5-10% chance of the DVD drive not worknig sometime in the future.

The lack of future BIOS updates does not bother me either. It works and is extremely stable as is, so there is no reason to actualy update the BIOS for compatibility reasons. I don't need new BIOS tweaks or anything since I am not trying to make a monster OC machine out of it. FYI; my work machine is the same Asus P8P67 pre-recall MB as yours, and one of my home machines is a Gigabyte P67-UD5 pre-recall, and i have no plans to RMA either until an actual fail. I can always do that later...

I don't expect my SATA2 ports to fail unless I'm unlucky and even if they do, I can still RMA the thing as long as it's under warrantee. It's not like a auto recall where a defect is gonna kill you in a rear-end collision explosion or something. The worse that can happen is the SATA2 ports corrupt the drives connected to them, or just stop working. If it happens within warrantee time, just RMA it then, if it happens outside of warrantee, then too bad, no different than any other major failure. Unlike most failures though, you can keep using the MB though, just don't use the SATA2 ports..
 
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jiffylube1024 said:
Yes, RMA it. I don't know if you'll be able to forever - take advantage of it while you can!
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Why wouldn't you be able to RMA it as long as it's under the MB's product warrantee period? Of course you can't RMA 10 years out of warantee, but as long as it's under the warantee period, any manufacturing defect (which includes the P67 chipset bug) is covered....
 
Yes, there's only a low chance that the SATA ports will fail within the next few years, that failure comes at the end of a long period of decreasing performance. Even if they don't fail before you upgrade, they will still degrade over the time you're using the motherboard, so I would RMA if I were you. In fact, I already did RMA and received my new B3 Asus mobo a couple days ago.
 
I think you have to take advantage of this now while you can. Even if you decided to keep it for as long as it lasts (which is only suppose to be 2 years MAX) it would be worthless to anyone else for resale value.

I'd put up with the hassle now for zero charge and have something worth keeping.
 
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