Intel Knowingly Sells Faulty Chipsets. Are They Crazy?

If you're gonna put something like "Are they Crazy" into the headline then you have to back it up.

And instead of backing it up they argue the other direction (Environmentally is the right choice, previous flaws worked out fine etc).

Besides, the entire logic is rubbish. If the faulty chipsets are only being built into boards without the physical connections to hit the flaws then effectively all the board out there are without flaw. So Intel reduces their 1bn recall cost, saves the environment, gives supplier cheap gear and expose nobody to the flaw....and the article calls that crazy? Weak
 
So much of drama queens, written by AMD fanboys.

Makes a lot of sense to reduce the impact as explained above, so why the sensationalist reporting and the thread for it.

And AMD have never had undocumented features in the silicon? Of course not.
 
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How is it crazy? If the systems it's being used on are not affected at all by the flaw then I just don't get what this fuss is about.

Do you know what your AMD triple-core CPUs are? They're quad cores with a disabled faulty core. Same kind of thing there.
 
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So much of drama queens, written by AMD fanboys.

Makes a lot of sense to reduce the impact as explained above, so why the sensationalist reporting and the thread for it.

And AMD have never had undocumented features in the silicon? Of course not.
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Did you read the article? Maybe you should. :rolleyes:
 
These CPU's and support chips are so complex, it's no wonder they have issues. Maybe more testing is required. It sounds like they wanted to steal a march on ATI (bulldozer).

Where I find real sloppiness is when version 266.58 of an update is out and they are telling us rather to go back and use 197.75. Where along this path did they not pick up on a problem??
 
I did actually. Just commenting that it is sensationalist headline seems out of place, plus it is not accurate.

In a notebook computer, for example, only two 6Gbps SATA connections will ever get used--one for the hard disk and one for the optical drive. There won't even be the physical sockets for any additional SATA storage.
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That's BS.
 
I didn't read the article but what I heard (15 years ago) is that pentium chips that didn't pass the Pentium test were sold as Celerons. That's just good business sense, making a sale out of a reject product...
 
I think Intel are retarded...

If they wanna sell the boards with the stuffed chipset then so be it, but then reduce the price. you wanna equate this to 4 cores with a core disabled, then AMD sell it for cheaper. Pentium with a fault... a Celeron, it was sold for cheaper.

Either take all the boards back and replace them all, or get a rebate on the stuffed board and keep it if you wanna

bottom line is you not getting what you paid for, regardless of whether you use it or not.
 
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