Intel shipping Sandy Bridge again

[Filekutter]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/02/08/fixed-sandy-bridge-chip-sets-to-be-in-the-c/1

 

[JezEngland]

gosh

 

[SieB]

I can see why Intel are doing this but I still think it's a bad idea.

If you already have a P67 board then it's bad enough but being sold one when you know as you hand your money over you are buying a faulty product, even though it may not affect you or you get a PCI SATA card you still have to go through the process of getting your motherboard replaced/fixed. In my opinion Intel should just bite the bullet and except thier losses and put the effort into producing the fixed chipset rather than continuing to sell the faulty one.

 

[sotonswan]

I can see why Intel are doing this but I still think it's a bad idea.

If you already have a P67 board then it's bad enough but being sold one when you know as you hand your money over you are buying a faulty product, even though it may not affect you or you get a PCI SATA card you still have to go through the process of getting your motherboard replaced/fixed. In my opinion Intel should just bite the bullet and except thier losses and put the effort into producing the fixed chipset rather than continuing to sell the faulty one.

I think it's a very good idea. We're not talking about the boards you or I would buy.

You don't need a fix for a problem that doesn't exist. The manufacturers have already promised, in these cases, to not use the SATA2 ports. They probably won't even fit the SATA2 connectors to the motherboard. This m/b can then be used for a cheap laptop advertised as 6Gb/s.

Win/win/win.

The laptop manufacturers get to build the laptops they were going to anyway, with a discount on the chipset (win).

Customers get a laptop at the spec they were waiting for (win).

Intel get to make something back on the 8 million chipsets they already produced and had originally accounted for as scrapped (win).

So long as these chips don't cross the boundary from SATA3-only-spec channel to full-spec channel then this will work. In theory this is a good solution, and barring fraud or incompetence benefits all.

Perhaps some thought on mitigating the risk of incompetence/fraud wouldn't go amiss though. We've already seen incompetence and fraud is never that far away. Depends who Intel sell to and what controls they insist on, or whether they'll just turn a blind eye. That could really blow up in their faces.

But assuming the controls are in place, it's a very good idea.

ATB

 

[SieB]

I want to sell my motherboard on when I upgrade and wont be able to unless it is fixed because the buyer will be asking "is this with the fixed chipset?" and I want to be able to say "yes it is."

I wouldn't sell you a pair of trousers and say BTW th bottom of the legs will start to come loose and the stitching will drop out, but don't worry just cut them off above the knees and make them into shorts.

 

[Icekube]

I want to sell my motherboard on when I upgrade and wont be able to unless it is fixed because the buyer will be asking "is this with the fixed chipset?" and I want to be able to say "yes it is."

I wouldn't sell you a pair of trousers and say BTW th bottom of the legs will start to come loose and the stitching will drop out, but don't worry just cut them off above the knees and make them into shorts.

Very true. But I'm sure as long as you have receipts your board manufacturer will have you covered.