News - Retailers respond to Intel’s Sandy Bridge woes

[j.o.s.h.1408]

If you drop £800 on the CPU perhaps.

LOL no. my core i7 920 still as good as some of those sb and if i clock it more, it wil be faster plus i have proper PCI 2.0 lanes for proper SLI/CROSSFIRE setup unlike most SB boards from what i have heard of.

If SB was soo much better than a nehalem then how come nehalem owners dont want to upgrade? i tell u why. because SB offers what? 5% 10% increase in speed at best?

SB is also priced nearly same as nehalem so again you aint saving much if any by going SB. instead you gets tuffed by this intel chipset issue.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a nehalem and would highly recomend it over a SB as an alternative unless you want to wait until march.april for this issue to be fixed and the new Z58 board to come out .

[ooey]

Its still an increase though josh. With regards to the asus p8p67 pro - sata iii is backwards compatible so i see no reason why if you need to fill the 4 ports with sata 2 devices to work around the problem for now then theres no reason why you cant do that, is there?

[Terbinator]

LOL no. my core i7 920 still as good as some of those sb and if i clock it more, it wil be faster plus i have proper PCI 2.0 lanes for proper SLI/CROSSFIRE setup unlike most SB boards from what i have heard of.

If SB was soo much better than a nehalem then how come nehalem owners dont want to upgrade? i tell u why. because SB offers what? 5% 10% increase in speed at best?

SB is also priced nearly same as nehalem so again you aint saving much if any by going SB. instead you gets tuffed by this intel chipset issue.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a nehalem and would highly recomend it over a SB as an alternative unless you want to wait until march.april for this issue to be fixed and the new Z58 board to come out .

I don't want to upgrade and I'm on LF and you can still clock the SB chips.

Did i say there was anything wrong with X58?

You can recommend X58 - no one is stopping you, except the objective facts and peoples interpretation £/P wise.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/99?vs=288

[ooey]

The sandybridge also kicks out a lot less heat (95w max as opposed to the 130w of an i7 920/30). Thus it should be safer to o/clock it higher.