News - Intel halts shipments of 6-series chipsets after finding a flaw

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Cougar Point controllers found to degrade SATA performance over time, but production of new silicon is already underway

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Oh dear, retailers/etailers expect a avalanche of returns.

Oh bugger.
:(

Wonder if it's worth me switching my drives to the two other controllers on the mb?

Sandy Bridge seems to be somewhat of a rushed launch.

Bit like that post ? :D

There's not much detail anywhere on what exactly the problem is and what people like me who have shiny new sandy bridge processors should do :(

quite glad I avoided Sandy now.

Oh FFS!!

I have a few pitchforks and (unlit) flaming torches spare if anyone fancies joining me to visit Intel HQ.
http://i.imgur.com/xrwYq.jpg

Some info on scan's website about it
http://www.scan.co.uk/shops/intel/news

Why didn't I hold out for Bulldozer? I normally buy AMD, but figured I'd give Intel a go for a change. Can tell I'm going to regret it.

Dear early adopters,

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/nelson-muntz.gif

Regards,
aidanjt

AnandTech have an excellent analysis of this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/i...-begins-recall

Good on them for such swift action.. Sucks to be them right now though! That's a costly bug.

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

Dear early adopters,

http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/nelson-muntz.gif

Regards,
aidanjt

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i was an early adopter for nehalem and they still run flawlessly till this day

Meh, aidanjt is troll, do not feed.

Intel suck - Gen 2 of their SSDs was fecked and now these new chipsets. Not impressed! Thankfully i've got two other controllers on board so I can switch easily enough. Hadn't noticed a problem at all at this point (in fact i've been very happy with my system since upgrading) and it does seem that it takes time to show up regardless.