Intel announce SATA design flaw in new 6 series chipsets

Looks like all our Sandybridge motherboards are screwed :rolleyes:

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/...nting-solution

(via http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...ror-stock.html)

Oh noes.

Disassembling my rig to send back my motherboard is going to be a pain.

This'll be my third Windows reinstall in a week if I have to send my MoBo back :@

Judging from the replies at OCN it'll be a while, maybe a month + before the new revisions are implemented into the motherboards.

I wish Intel would post what causes it to fail, saying "under some circumstances" isn't very useful, it'd be nice to know if it was safe to carry on using the MoBo without losing data for a couple of months.

From what I can gather, there will be no data loss, just a decrease in read/write speeds and maybe access times.

Anyways, I can see it now; so many people will be sending their boards back, Asus will be overwhelmed and we will have to wait 3 weeks to get a new one back.

Knowing our luck, the conditions are probably overclocking :P

See, this is why I waited before considering SB. I can wait for all the glitches to go away.

Well this might be my chance to swap my mobo for the P version... but damn i'll need to buy thermal paste if I gotta send mine back :@

Damn that sucks! I will most probably wait for the revisions to come out before I upgrade from LGA775

Just bought mine last week, its currently as the post depot. Guessing I'd do a refund instead of sending an open product in.