Anyone had any luck finding 2600K ?

Its not a chip recall, its a motherboard recall. I Recommend that everyone with an asus P8XXX board unplugs all data devices from the light blue sata ports (sata II) and plugs them into the sata II ports, as putting them in sata II COULD CORRUPT THEM

 

Thanks, will do. Is this only for Asus mobos? Not all brands?

 

I recommend that you don't know what your talking about and should stop sprouting misinformation.

 

Damn, just got a new motherboard yesterday.

Might still have interested in your CPU tho.

 

True I guess, they are talking about degradation of the chip that supplies power to the sata2 ports right? So supply voltage is reducing over time right? Not overvolting to fry our hard drives right? Its unlikely to cause a corruption issue, just eventually it wont detect anything on that port, right?

If thats all then Im not overly fussed until it happens then rma. Until then- let the benching continue.

 

It's been said in all the press releases, and commentary from various sources, but it's basically a long term degregation of the pathways to the sata2 ports, which AT MOST will throw up errors and will simply reattempt to transfer data. Over time, this could get bad enough that more errors are happening than data is being transferred. Hence it's not something overly concerning.

Most people should be able to go along with their lives fine, and when you have the spare time for computer downtime, get a RMA swap* at your place of purchase for a fixed motherboard.

*Retailers that have stock, and aren't all around jerks.

 

Batch L051954

Recieved my 2600K from Scoptech today. It's batch is: L051A954 Can't wait to see what it can do.

Now to decide if I just get a cheap (P8P67 LE etc) mobo and upgrade the family PC at a later date and get a Core i3 2100 for it (they won't ever need more than 2 sata ports) or Just hold out for the revised chipsets to come in.

-Lucus

 

troll in the dungeon.(http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug). As i said "Could corrupt" so people like me with heaps of data (3tb) wont risk losing it

 

So if one wants a mobo with no potential issues what should they be looking at? This potential issue relates to all current P67 boards doesnt it?

 

If you're relying on a functional SATA port to secure your 3tb of data then you're an idiot.

It looks more and more like a gradual degradation so there's no need for anyone with SB boards to do anything until april 1 at least

bb

 

mm you raise a good point. I was told it was worse than that, but heaps of ppl are saying its fine for now. thanks (btw all my friends have copies off all my "data" so im fine )

 

Who told you it was worse that that? As the original Intel press release certainly didn't.

 

so who has 2500k in stock? (and isnt still gouging - probably no one yet). hopefully prices will come down to normal quick when people stop buying motherboards

 

Any luck with this yet?

 

Ive seemed to of hit a wall with my 2600k, can bench 4.6ghz easy but as soon as i take it any higher will fail to boot. Besides upping vcore, what else should i be doing. Seen the same batch do 5.6ghz, just cant find any decent guides around

 

There are good and bad within the same batches too so you can never say for sure how well one will go.

 

just grab the phone book and phone everyshop around you and ask the smaller ones to ring you and reserve one you lucky sob's

 

got any tips or know any good reads about overclocking this cpu anyway? I feel could get alot more from this cpu, temps dont even hit 70° with ram at 2133mhz feel there is a bit more inside

 

http://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/04/3-step-overclocking-guide-–-sandy-bridge-v0-1beta/ if you haven't read, go for more jigga watts of power and disable the crap ya don't need, also is try disableing the ht

 

Synnex jsut got 100+ in stock in melbourne
according to my work login