[Fury]

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/20326

The chipset and CPU's are too awesome to pass by, at least until AMD's Bulldozer hits the shelves. But beware of the discovered bug and get the motherboard replaced later, or delay your purchase.

[Topgun]

also intel insider sucks

[Mongoose]

Why do tech companies come up with such goofy internal names for their product lines?

[achtung]

Well, good thing I waited before picking up parts for a new system.

[Spoon]

And I was *this* close to buying one
Guess i'll have to wait a bit longer

[CP5670]

I saw this earlier. It's a good thing I held off buying that SB laptop I was about to get a few days ago. This issue seems to be serious enough that several retailers and OEMs (Newegg, Dell, etc.) have pulled all the SB lineups from their websites already.

[Admiral LSD]

It should also be pointed out that this is only the second major recall of an Intel chipset in over a decade (the other being the i820),  at least as far as I remember. That's a run no other chipset maker can match. The way Intel are handling it is better than most too, offering to replace affected boards.

[Mefustae]

Great, I just talked my mate down from buying an i7 980X (AU$1200 on average) and convinced him to put a Sandy Bridge i7 2600k in there instead (AU$375 on average).

Now, he's never going to believe me again, and will piss away thousands. Fantastical.

[Admiral LSD]

In all honesty, if he's going to let something like this influence his buying decision without looking into it himself and seeing that, so far, Intel have been quite accommodating with respect to eventually replacing faulty boards, he deserves to piss his money away.

[CP5670]

I'll probably just get something with an Arrandale i5 at this point. They say the updated models won't be available until early March, and I can't afford to wait that long.

It should also be pointed out that this is only the second major recall of an Intel chipset in over a decade (the other being the i820),  at least as far as I remember. That's a run no other chipset maker can match. The way Intel are handling it is better than most too, offering to replace affected boards.

They are certainly fronting up to it, but it actually seems like a bit of an overreaction to remove all the SB products from sale. The two 6G SATA ports are not affected and most machines, especially laptops, would have the hard drives on those anyway.

[Admiral LSD]

I get the idea that Intels bean counters have said to them that it's going to be cheaper and easier for them long term to spend $700 million now and swallow the resulting short term (and relatively minor) hit in sales and revenue by offering to recall and replace all the affected chips than risk lawsuits that could see them paying out far more than that in damages. Not entirely pure motives, but at the end of the day people are going to be getting their boards replaced and that's all that really matters.

[Spicious]

Mine arrived on Monday and after fixing the RAM voltage (1.5 instead of 1.65) it seems stable. Until 3TB drives are more common and better priced and the next set of SSDs come out I don't need the 3GB ports anyway.

Here's hoping Asus come up with a strategy at least as good as Gigabyte's.

[Admiral LSD]

Considering Intel are offering to replace the affected chips as well as compensate the OEMs as well I believe, all at their own cost, any mobo manufacturer that doesn't take them up on it and offer a free replacement program isn't worth buying another board from. I wonder if Asus dragging their feet on the matter is due to their history with Intel in this area? They lost the most on i820 and actually pushed AMD products ahead of Intel for something like a year afterward. Of course, it was easier to do that then since no one in Asus' target demographic was really buying Intel systems at that point, but now that same demographic wants nothing but Intel systems for the most part. Still, I would have thought Intel offerign a replacement program this early would have had Asus out the gate first on their own replacement program for that reason, but you never know...