Get off the bridge. Intel Screws the Pooch...
Well boy's and girls... for those of you waiting to build or buy a new rig in 2011 I guess the jury's in on Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" chips and chipset. Seems that in an effort to use all the current inventory of capacitors and sech with new motherboards a crapload of bad junk got put into play. Bottom line? Intel new chip and chipset go "BOOM"!!!!!! Couldn't happen to a nice company...
After the anti-competitive shenannigans Intel finally copped to and their merciless throttling of almost all innovation in the PC world, SB crappin' da bed is exactly what they deserve. In case you'd rather see it in black and whitle...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/processor...e-industry-216
http://infoworld.com/t/processors/in...dge-fiasco-784
Worf
Reenforces my pref for AMD
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Originally Posted by Worf101
Well boy's and girls... for those of you waiting to build or buy a new rig in 2011 I guess the jury's in on Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" chips and chipset. Seems that in an effort to use all the current inventory of capacitors and sech with new motherboards a crapload of bad junk got put into play. Bottom line? Intel new chip and chipset go "BOOM"!!!!!! Couldn't happen to a nice company...
After the anti-competitive shenannigans Intel finally copped to and their merciless throttling of almost all innovation in the PC world, SB crappin' da bed is exactly what they deserve. In case you'd rather see it in black and whitle...
http://www.infoworld.com/t/processor...e-industry-216
http://infoworld.com/t/processors/in...dge-fiasco-784
Worf
Thanks, Worfster, I hadn't heard about this.
Makes me just as glad I recommended an AMD processor and AMD/ATI chipset (on an ASUS m/b) to my daughter when we built her a new desktop recently.