Intel finds flaw in 6-series chipsets, halts shipments

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

"Yes, that likely means the replacement of all Sandy-Bridge-based motherboards, laptops, and pre-built PCs currently on store shelves or already in the hands of consumers."

Sigh. Of course I just switched over last week to Sandy Bridge. Can't seem to win for trying.

At least the corporate upgrades I ordered were discounted i7-870 systems. Would hate to have replace a bunch of work machines.

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Adurrhurrhurr. This makes me laugh.

...sorry.

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Necrobond - 50 BS/Inv Scrapper made in I1
Rickar - 50 Bots/FF Mastermind
Anti-Muon - 42 Warshade
Ivory Sicarius - 45 Crab Spider
Aber ja, nat�rlich Hans nass ist, er steht unter einem Wasserfall.

Well drat... I just built a new Sandybridge PC.

Ah well, if it happens within the next 3 years, I'll just reconnect to one of the other ports.

Unless you have a ton of hard drives, this shouldn't be too big a problem.

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Yep and newegg just yanked all of the recalled MBs off the site.

There are still some 6Gb only MBs still for sale.

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H: Blaster 50, Defender 50, Tank 50, Scrapper 50, Controller 50, PB 50, WS 50
V: Brute 50, Corruptor 50, MM 50, Dominator 50, Stalker 50, AW 50, AS 50
Top 4: Controller, Brute, Scrapper, Corruptor
Bottom 4: (Peacebringer) way below everything else, Mastermind, Dominator, Blaster
CoH in WQHD

Heck, they yanked the CPUs as well.

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Father Xmas - Level 50 Ice/Ice Tanker - Victory
$725 and $1350 parts lists --- My guide to computer components

Tempus unum hominem manet

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Necrobond - 50 BS/Inv Scrapper made in I1
Rickar - 50 Bots/FF Mastermind
Anti-Muon - 42 Warshade
Ivory Sicarius - 45 Crab Spider
Aber ja, nat�rlich Hans nass ist, er steht unter einem Wasserfall.

They are probably mad as heck that Intel didn't give them *any* advance warning so they are probably in panic mode.

Also with so few qualified motherboards in the channel, buyers who don't know that the 1155 motherboards are not available and Sandy Bridge is not 1156 compatible might reduce confusion.

Just taking them off the market for a little bit might be a good game plan in terms of returns and PO'd customers. Almost everyone is unhappy with the situation right now. Except AMD.

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I found my castles were built on pillars of salt, pillars of sand.

For some reason I can't explain, I know st. peter won't be calling your name.

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