More details emerge about Intel's Cougar Point chipset flaw

That's probably going to be depandant upon where the board was purchased. Gigabyte have already come out and said that their boards will all be exchanged by the outlet that sold the board. I notice they are also offering a refund, although I can't see many people holding onto their CPU's when they cant plug them into a board.
Locally that means either cross-ship for the high profile/enthusiast retail/etail outfits, or overnight courier -which can turn into two days-for the standalone stores (or physically going to the location and doing the swap).

Early adopters have always taken on the most risk. You're new to this tech thing aren't ya?

Absolutely, I have a very impressive collection of HD-DVD's to prove it ... they still work though. Someone has to drive the process by jumping on board, if you want to play with the new toys it's a risk you must be willing to take.

Not at all! I've Been around electronics for over 50 years, and here for 4 years and 5000 posts.

I enjoy watching people squander their money on new tech. You "early adopters", can pay off the R&D costs for me, I've got time.

Are you actually that proud of scarfing up what wind up to be prototypes?

If so, why all the moaning about having to send the junk back? If you have one of these defective motherboards, hang on to it. You can always try to pass it off as a "collector's item" on Ebay.

If you say so.

So then, there isn't that big a downside after all?

That's some savage editing right there. Keeping up with what's left is akin to sitting through an Ingmar Bergman triple feature.

So in retospect:

Cougar Point is a fizzer for the time being...that's bad
Could put AMD on a more equal footing with Intel if both launch/re-launch in the same time...that's good
Cougar Point B2 chipset boards will likely become a ~100% RMA proposition...that's bad
Cougar Point B2 chipset boards can still be used for their intended purpose for the majority of users....that's good
red's spirit and charm are indefatigable (but are they indomitable?)....that's good.

Yeah, savage. The best part is there was no profanity, no flaming, just some humor. But then what good is humor at a tech forum. It's really just a bunch of people that like to argue, with one track minds. Oh, and let's not forget myriad useless guest posts that say, "but will it run Crysis". (Over and over and over, ad nauseum).

So, to recapitulate, capricious editing, based on very little necessity.

The humor seems to have been getting more interest than the thread, (judging by the hit count), which was pretty much dead, save for the argument between Princeton and Kibaruk, or was that in the "AMD drops their pants further on the price of CPUs" forum? It's so hard to keep up, same fight, different arena.

Ahhhh, I see. So i'm guessing you and G took a wander into OT territory.
BTW: Did you know that Ivy Bridge's chipset will be called Panther Point...after Cougar Point's detour into RMA-land maybe they should call it "Fat 'ol Housecat who sleeps 20 hours a day Point" -catchy, no?

Hey, if Mom isn't going to show them any attention....
BTW: Apparently, Sandy Bridge being on hold means that everyone will be flocking to the iPad, because the tech world is engulfed in tablet fever (not to be confused with Saturday Night Fever) - and we all know that tablets are a natural substitute for desktop PC's and high-end laptops

Ah, the old forced meme. noted for it's lack of notability!
BTW: Gigabyte have a software download that can help detect whether a users board will be affected by the faulty transistor bug

Capricious: Adjective of Chevrolet Caprice (Shĕv'rō'lay Kuh-prees) To be a workmanlike people mover of uninspired design......(or an Impala by any other name would smell as sweet)

The unintentional comedy quotient is quite high though. Personally I was hoping for a bite from the non-fanboy (amazing how well Google works when you refine the parameters)...oh well, there's always a next time....unfortunately

Thats a 10!. i think I hear a position with Readers Digest beckoning Chef.

Thanks G, already there. Maybe you missed my riveting (condensed) articles; "I Am Joe's Thermal Compund" and "Isopropyl Alcohol is the Best Medicine"

Does this mean that you two are not going to drop everything you're doing, and assuage my deep rooted, nagging fears, about the possible failure of a motherboard I don't actually own, and have no intention of buying?

Giving it some thought though, I wonder if I should submit my article, "DRAM, now available in Suppository", to the "Digest" as well....:rolleyes:

>Hi.Welcome.To.MegadouchePowerrrrPC™.
>My name is
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>"Dave"
>How.May.I.Be.Of.Assistance?
>Yeah, it's about my motherb
>My name is
>oard. What's happening re the RM
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>Do.You.Have.Any.Further.Questions?
>Listen up buster, you haven't answered the
>We.At.MegadouchePowerrrrPC™.Are.Glad.To.Be.Able.To.Help
>first question!!!!
>DoesThis.Resolve.The.Problem
>No !!!!!
> Thank.You.For.Choosing.MegadouchePowerrrrPC™
> Would.You.Like.A.Transcript.Sent.To.Your.Email.Address.
>What?...IfI weretotheorticallybuyaP67boardthatfeaturesCougarPointwhichhasa6.1wattTDP*whatsupportcanIexpectto
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> Dave has signed out

(Note: MegadouchePowerrrrPC™ is a ficticious OEM. Any resemblance to Hewlett-Packard support is purely co-incidental)

*Useful Cougar Point factoid.

If it concentrates on I/O throughput then it should be right up RD's alley!

Well thanx anyway, MegadouchePowerrrrPC™, I'm never even going to consider possibly buying one of these boards from another maker, ever again.

Way back when men were men, and hard drives were, well hard, MegadoucheStorageConglomerate™, would have at least had the courtesy to slap together a faulty firmware update, that would have bricked the part altogether, thereby circumventing the aggravation and hardship of your inaccessible RMA procedure. This would have been instrumental in allowing me to move on, in an attempt to piece together the tattered shards of my life, that your faulty motherboard have created.

Go Eagles! No really, go.

Indeed, while those were brilliant Chef...I enjoyed your fictional works. My favorites were "A tale of a City" and "Some of the Kings Men"

Oy...! Now you're going to tell me that doesn't rate a boo, aren't you?

My favorites are, "Dances with Wolf", and, "Didn't quite Make it out of New York".

For adult entertainment, it would be, "Snow White and the Two Dwarfs". (Condensed dual entendre)

That last one is hot enough to blow the SATA controller right out of a Cougar Point chipset board.

Luckily I learnt from the RD editing process. I negotiated my my next article to be index linked to government fiscal spending, so look out for "20 Billion Leagues Under the Sea" running through to the November 2015 issue (or impeachment...whichever comes first).

BTW*: Cougar Point covers twelve different chipsets (C202, 204 and 206 for Xeon E3-12xx, P67, H67 and H61 for desktop, B65 and Q67 for office/business, and HM65, HM67, QM67 and QS67 for the monile markets).

BTW = Back on Topic Woohoo