Sandy Bridge: All Your Processors Are Belong To Us

[W1nTry]

TBF the TLB bug (which coincidentally Intel had one as well, but anyways) was more of a server problem than a desktop one, and you had the choice to enable the BIOS patch if you wanted to, I recall someone on this forum NOT enabling it and running fine. That aside Capn is also right AMD would not have been able to foot that bill, this goes a long way to show how much EXTRA cash intel has lying around on its floors....

On a related note, good of them to go the Dell/HP/Apple/everyone who had a certain Nvidia chipset albeit ALOT FASTER and without saying its EVERYONE ELSE FAULT. XD

[phoenix31tt]

you know... whiles this bug may be big... i don't see it affecting a whole lot of people...

mainstream users run 1 maybe 2 hard drives max...

not to mention, this is not even a problem users would see in the near future, boards would run 2-3 years fine without experiencing the issue so i say intel does indeed deserve a big Kudos for coming out with it and addressing the problem.

Another company mighta just let it slide whiles updating the new revision

[W1nTry]

What graphics company are you referring to Pheonix? XD

[Spazosaurus]

lol win love ah commess.

[phoenix31tt]

lol ent @ comess... good thing i aint say noottthinn...
ah fraid the fanboys lol

[Arcmanov]

Well OK, look Asus and Gigabyte already work up plans to replace/refund people with 6-series motherboards.

...and according to Intel, it will be at least 3 yrs before any issues would start cropping up anyway.


So what's the problem again?

[W1nTry]

Must be the 'same' problem you know, like with the Phenom TLB that showed only on very specific SERVER workloads... you know, its a problem that could crash the internets... dangerous things like that XD