Intel Finds Major Flaw in Newest Computer Chips

I saw this, it's a real face-palm kind of moment for Intel. You know, I actually learned my lesson about early adopting on new platforms. I decided this time, "I'll wait until 1155 is out for a while before I rebuild my desktop". And voila, this happens. Yay me!

I remember getting an 1156 board (P55) the very day it came out. Sadly, memory support was absolute trash for lots of Gigabyte's launch 1156 boards. Long story short, no matter how I set the RAM sppeds/clocks, the BIOS would reset them and jack up the frequencies on the memory to ludicrous, dangerous speeds. That burned out the RAM slots on the board, but thankfully not the RAM. I had to sell off half my RAM to buy a new motherboard since I didn't want to be out of commission for a month while waiting on the RMA board from Gigabyte. Then I sold the new board once it came in, and bought my way back up to 8GB.

It was an awful month... :mad: But I'm happy to report I'm still on the same replacement board and sitting happily with 16GB now.
 
I've used a couple of the i5-2400s, and they are speedy little buggers. Hope this doesn't delay the platform too much
 
JosephLeo said:
Too late. Intel just Recalled all Sandy-Bridge CPU's until they get a permanent fix working.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they just recalling the chipset's not the CPU's?

The Sandy Bridge microprocessor is unaffected and no other products are affected by this issue.
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That, and they already have fixed the problem...

Intel has corrected the design issue, and has begun manufacturing a new version of the support chip which will resolve the issue.
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From Intel's PR: http://newsroom.intel.com/community...es-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution
 
Robert said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they just recalling the chipset's not the CPU's?

That, and they already have fixed the problem...

From Intel's PR: http://newsroom.intel.com/community...es-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution
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Well, you go ahead and try to find a single Sandy-Bridge off of Newegg (Motherboard, CPU or Prefab computer) right now ;) They took them offline last night thanks to the motherboard recall. I think they're recalling the P67 and the H67 (Cougar-Point) chipsets for two different reasons, each deadly to the motherboard side of things.

Also, of course intel will try to cover things up- but as it stands right now Intel screwed up on Sandy-Bridge and AMD can actually use this to play a game of semi-catch up since they're 2 generations behind...Personally, I though about it and I'm going AMD for the first time in 4 computers. Last AMD I built used a 3300+ I think...I don't even think it was an Athlon 64...
 
They only just started shipping the defective chipset on January 9th... so 2/3's of a month worth of bad stuff shouldn't affect too many people hopefully.

I don't think this is a game changer, and AMD needs a lot more than this to take over any market share. I have had AMD and Intel in the past, however, AMD is far behind in actual performance desktop chips at the moment.

Who remembers the Pentium Floating Point problem they had? Chip couldn't even do simple math! That was an AMD year. :)
 
This sucks. I am in the process of building a new pc, I have a new sandy bridge CPU, the ram, an ssd, a new psu, i have everything except the motherboard.

Now I'm probably going to have to wait a couple if months until this is all sorted out.
 
Vicenarian said:
$230.00 i5 2500K vs. Other CPUs

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+@+3.30GHz

I'm still going with Sandy Bridge for my next build, regardless of this issue.
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I'm actually waiting for the LGA 2011 i7's coming out. But then again I don't know if I can trust intel for this generation, so maybe I'll go with the new AM3+ that's due by the end of the year. My Core 2 Duo is starting to show its age. Again I'll say that I have no idea who will power my next build I'm waiting at least until August anyway.
 
Vicenarian said:
Still rocking my Pentium D :D
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Just threw away my Pentium 4 520 (2.8GHz 1MB Cache) a year ago after my thermal paste dried up and made the heatsink lose contact with the CPU. Replaced it with the current Core 2 Duo E7400 I have in there now. The motherboard can take up to an intel Core 2 Duo e8600 or, Core 2 Extreme X6800. So, my upgrade options are very limited. I've had that processor since 2005 I believe- then it died in late 2009. 4 years is a good run for a gamer.
 
JosephLeo said:
Just threw away my Pentium 4 520 (2.8GHz 1MB Cache) a year ago after my thermal paste dried up and made the heatsink lose contact with the CPU. Replaced it with the current Core 2 Duo E7400 I have in there now. The motherboard can take up to an intel Core 2 Duo e8600 or, Core 2 Extreme X6800. So, my upgrade options are very limited. I've had that processor since 2005 I believe- then it died in late 2009. 4 years is a good run for a gamer.
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Mine is a HP, but from I understand from the HP site, the BIOS only supports Pentium Ds...no core 2s. :(
 
I already have clients contacting me asking if the new systems we purchased for them were faulty. I am REALLY glad Intel found this and is ready to correct this as quickly as they did. Could you imagine if this went 6-12 months before being identified?
 
I will stick with AMD, They still own Intel in overclocking IMO. I have loved intel for years, but being able to control my AMD chip has pulled me to the dark side :D.
 
Knightsman said:
I will stick with AMD, They still own Intel in overclocking IMO. I have loved intel for years, but being able to control my AMD chip has pulled me to the dark side :D.
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Sandy Bridge is showing potential to be one of the best overclocking CPU's ever with 4.5GHz possible just on the stock cooler...and the enthusiast CPU's aren't even out yet.
 
The irony of Intel stopping 3rd-party chipsets

My first though on this latest fiasco was that $1 billion is pocket change for Intel but following on from the monies they have paid AMD and Nvidia it must all add up.

But, the main loss must surely be that they will be unable to sell SB CPUs for the next month at least and that got me thinking: is there any part of Intel which now regrets abusing their patents to make it next to impossible for third parties to offer chipsets for their CPUs?

Okay so they have made a bit of money from chipsets over the last few years (the X58 for instance is quite an expensive chipset, I think) and since Intel don't do fab for third parties it gives them something to run on older, larger processes, but I think all the extra profit they have made on the chipset business will be more than erased by this recall.
 
Knightsman said:
I will stick with AMD, They still own Intel in overclocking IMO. I have loved intel for years, but being able to control my AMD chip has pulled me to the dark side :D.
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They were good at one time but i7-2600k holds crown for overlocking i have mine running at 4.3ghz stable on stock air cooler i can still go higher with water as high as 4.8 without problems.
Also i can overlcock and watch temps using a smart phone i think the interface is really cool.
 
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