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Asus, Gigabyte To Replace All Sandy Bridge Boards

Posted by samzenpus on from the return-to-sender dept.

J. Dzhugashvili writes "In the wake of Intel's announcement that all existing Sandy Bridge chipsets have a bug that causes degraded Serial ATA performance, top-tier motherboard makers Asus and Gigabyte have made public statements regarding their return policy for affected boards. Asus is promising 'hassle-free return and/or replacement', while Gigabyte says owners of affected boards are entitled to a full refund or replacement—and it recommends that users seek refunds. Both companies are advising users to contact the original place of purchase to proceed. On a related note, Gigabyte has announced that new Sandy Bridge motherboards with bug-free chipsets will be available in volume in April."

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  1. More tech detail by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the chipheads, Anandtech has a good description of the underlying problem:
    http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug

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  2. Cougar Point, not Sandy Bridge by pablodiazgutierrez · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cougar Point is a chipset (the set of circuits that normally come in a motherboard, separate from the CPU). Sandy Bridge is a family of processors. The announced problem is with the former, not the latter. A lot of tech news outlets are spreading the misinformation and causing quite a mess.

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