You might want to hold off on Sandy Bridge for a bit........

[Mixtremist]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cougar ... 12108.html

[siriusbliss]

yup, it's rippling through the whole industry.
Actually a relatively minor fix, but the error is in the actual chip substrate, so they have to revamp.

Truth be told this error was found a while ago, but just now being announced (after earnings).
I'm sure most companies have already made corrections.


Greg

[Mixtremist]

Yeah, more of an embarassment - and slight financial loss - than anything else for Intel. Still, one can't help but wonder what other "glitches" lurk behind this launch. Think I'll wait a few more months before I upgrade.........

[siriusbliss]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20030 ... ditorPicks

yeah, slight financial loss - at up to $1Bil for what probably amounts to about less than a 10 micron circuit tucked away somewhere in the silicon.

Greg

[dawman]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4139/coug ... -i7-2630qm

I also was looking at this but during CES nothing was mentioned anywhere, and you know damn good and well tie 1 manufacturers were aware of this.
You'd think mechanical HDD manufacturers using SATA II ports would have made mention...?
Obviously they circled their wagons since most mechanical HDD manufactures are vested into new memory designs and SSD developments using SATA III....

Good news is that i7 laptops w/ Triple RAM will see significant price drops by years end to make up the lost time and money.
I still can't see dual channel RAM doing what I want live with the XBox, so maybe I got lucky with this debacle....

[dawman]

Well I broke down and bought a demo from CES.
It's a laptop from MSI w/ 8GB's and w7 Premium. Sandy Bridge is OK as long as SATA III storage is used.
This guy snags gear every year at CES and gets rid of it for what he paid for it probably after several weeks of playing with stuff.
I like MSI's support and this CPU is 2.3GHz at all cores running.
Turbo Boost is a good choice on this CPU since it actually works, and when using a single standalone app I can get 3.4GHz.

For 600 bucks I had to snag it.
These are going for 999 USD w/ 4GB's everywhere I checked.
Time for Omnisphere 1.5 w/ Polyphonic Aftertouch.

[Mixtremist]

Well I broke down and bought a demo from CES.
It's a laptop from MSI w/ 8GB's and w7 Premium. Sandy Bridge is OK as long as SATA III storage is used.
This guy snags gear every year at CES and gets rid of it for what he paid for it probably after several weeks of playing with stuff.
I like MSI's support and this CPU is 2.3GHz at all cores running.
Turbo Boost is a good choice on this CPU since it actually works, and when using a single standalone app I can get 3.4GHz.

For 600 bucks I had to snag it.
These are going for 999 USD w/ 4GB's everywhere I checked.
Time for Omnisphere 1.5 w/ Polyphonic Aftertouch.

Nice grab! No question Sandy Bridge machines are viable - I just snagged one for my daughter. For "freshening up" my Scope machine, I knew I couldn't use Sandy Bridge series CPUs because I need at least 3 (preferrably 4 or 5) PCI slots for my Scope cards. No such LGA 1155 animal. So, I decided to have fun shrinking everything down from a 4U rackmount 20" deep server chassis to a 3U rackmount 17" deep server chassis. I already know exactly what I need to do to make it work - I've already acquired, measured, and modified the chassis. I'm just waiting for the power supply.
Should be fun.