» Tue May 17, 2011 2:02 am Apparently there's a design flaw in the P67 chipset used in socket 1155 motherboards that is causing SATA performance to degrade or fail.
No P67 motherboards are being shipping (try adding one to your cart on Newegg). How can we expect it to be handled for the existing motherboards with this problem? Obviously they are going to fix the problem and revise the motherboards, but will existing owners get a replacement, or will we have to wait until something does go wrong to have it covered?
Here's an article: http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Discovers-Flaw-In-Latest-Motherboard-Chipset-Halts-Production/
No P67 motherboards are being shipping (try adding one to your cart on Newegg). How can we expect it to be handled for the existing motherboards with this problem? Obviously they are going to fix the problem and revise the motherboards, but will existing owners get a replacement, or will we have to wait until something does go wrong to have it covered?
Here's an article: http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Discovers-Flaw-In-Latest-Motherboard-Chipset-Halts-Production/
Yup, read about that this morning. As an early adopter myself, I can certainly understand potential early adopter penalties, but in reality it doesn't really affect me that much. I only use 4 SATA ports and 4 of the 8 that I have on my board are still "safe" since they're using a 3rd party controller. So it's just a waiting game for me until the revision boards come out. If you really look into it more, this is only going to affect up to 15% of the market and this SATA port degradation happens after a couple years depending on usage and all....so it's not an immediate flaw and most importantly, there's no data corruption should one of your storage components be connected to the faulty ports. It certainly is tough for those that need a good number of SATA ports though.....
Existing owners are to get an RMA replacement board from either the retail source or the OEM manufacturer....there is no reason not to issue it because Intel is paying for all of it...supposedly $1 billion to carry out the replacements. It's still the first day of announcement, so in the next couple weeks OEM and retailers will be given a game plan on how to handle the RMA's.
It'll be painful for the online buyers since they may have to ship the board back before getting the replacement leaving them boardless for ssome days. If you got an Asus board, then Asus's Advanced Replacement Program allows cross-shipping of bad and good boards provided you give them a valid credit card number as temporary collateral. If you're like me that got it at a Brick & Mortar store, then the downtime is a matter of a couple hours once the board is in stock.
It's certainly bad publicity overall, but Intel at least is doing something quickly about it before crap hits the fan later down the road and they certainly have the money to do it. The OEM PC-makers will be hit hard by the returns and replacements since thousands of these SandyBridge systems have to come back for repairs. The recall is for 8 million chipsets!!! Makes you wonder how many are in OEM PC systems....ouch for the labor and ship/receive departments.
The ones who really benefit from this are the motherboard component manufacturers and if you really think about it...the existing SB do-it-yourself owners. Component manufacturers because they're going to get paid (again) for providing for the replacement boards. The do-it-yourself owners because you still have a functioning board for some time that you can use and abuse until the replacement comes in which case, you get a new board :thumbsup:
