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On February 01 2011 07:16 HyperLimen wrote: I just got done putting my new system together a few days ago. What a shame. The CPU is insanely fast compared to my old e8400. Runs very cold too with a noctua nh-d14 on it.
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also upgraded from a 8500, and it does run insanely cool even with much worse of a cooler (artic 7 rev pro )
was too good to be true!!
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I don't see this being a problem for most people already with the defective part, as long as they know what's up. Sure, there's a wrong transistor getting the wrong voltage in some legacy part of the PLL circuit for the SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, but the problem develops slowly over time.
I'd guess that most people don't use more than two SATA ports more than somewhat frequently anyway. If you've got one hard drive and an optical drive, you're good to go on the two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports that have no issues. If you have two hard drives and use an optical drive rarely, you'd put the two hard drives on the two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports and the optical drive on a SATA 3.0 Gbps port, where you'd never realistically develop an issue over the lifespan of using that motherboard.
If you have more drives than that, it's somewhat likely you have a higher-end motherboard with additional SATA ports on top of what the 6 series chipset provides. And if not, PCI-E SATA controllers are not expensive anyway.
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It rarely effects the people who would be most prone to it. Power users still are on the x58 platform waiting for lga 2011 those are the people who usually have 8 hdd's and way to much time on their hands.
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nothing like a 300 million dollar mistake...in the first month of launch.
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Hmmm I don't know too much about computer hardware, but I know the basics I guess.
When I get my paycheck friday I think I should be able to splurge and finish building my computer. I have a 750W PSU as well as my HDD and GPU, so now I'm trying to pick out a CPU and MOBO and I wouldn't mind splurging in order to get this build to last a while so I wanted to get a sandy bridge i7. I'm planning on OCing it (@5Ghz with air flow ideally, if my PSU can handle it?)
What I'm looking for:
Well priced Canadian site(s) that can offer me an unlocked i7 SB that I can OC. I still need a new MOBO too, so it needs to be compatible with it as well as my Radeon 5770 HD and SATA-3G HDD, although I'm more concerned about picking the processor first.
So unless I'm mistaken this is practically what I'm looking for:
http://ncix.com/products/?sku=57960&vpn=BX80623I72600K&manufacture=Intel
the only thing bugging me is the price. NCIX usually has pretty good prices and is even located here in B.C., but this seems pretty expensive compared to american sites I see. Should I just order one from an american site if I can't find a good canadian one and pay the extra shipping? The dollar is pretty even right now afaik.
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@purecarnagge
It's a billion dollar mistake. 700 million to fix it, 300 million in lost revenue.
@Grobyc
You won't be able to purchase Sandybridge until late February / March as all the motherboards are being pulled from the retail channel.
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Ahh thanks for the heads up. I guess I'll follow this thread for any updates and wait on finishing my computer.
Side note: any idea on how high I will be able to OC it once I get it? With this PSU will I be bottlenecked by my PSU before I would need to resort to a new means of cooling?
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No you won't be bottlenecked by the PSU. You can reach 5ghz @ 1.4v - 1.5v easily on air but of course I wouldn't recommend this kind of overclock for 24/7 use.
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Oh cool, I shouldn't be using it too much anyways, but I might end up going 4.6Ghz or something anyway just to be safe. Thanks 
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So what's up with this supposed silicon fix anyway? Would this be something we could do ourselves if we are able to get a defect through some means?
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nope it's a different laying over the chip to prevent the rapid degradation of the part that controls the sata 3.0 ports, it's basically a slightly different chip i think the chip revision is B3 not sure. It's suppose to already be done and oem's should already be receiving them but it will be probably until the 1st week of march before it trickles down to retailers. A "fix" for it is to buy a 10-20 buck sata controller and just not use sata 3.0 ports. Not really a fix it's just avoiding the problem.
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