MAINGEAR Response on Intel 6-Series Chipset Recall – New Chipsets Coming March 17th, 2011
Legit Reviews just got done talking with Maingear and they are under the impression that they should have a new batch of fixed Intel P67/H67 chipsets by March 17th, 2011. They said they estimated the arrival date, but based it off what they have been told by Intel. The company also made a statement today about their systems shipping with the chipset in question. If customers would like to keep their systems they can get a free SATA 3G discrete hard drive controller card added into their system to get around the chipset issue. The issue resides specifically with the hard drive controller in the chips for controllers ports 2-5, the SATA II 3Gbps ports. It does NOT affect the SATA III 6Gbps ports, or ports 0 and 1.
Today we were made aware of an issue with Intels Sandy Bridge platform, Cougar Point. This issue relates to the chips used in all P67 and H67 motherboards compatible with Sandy Bridge processors, but it does NOT affect the Sandy Bridge processor itself. It should be emphasized that MAINGEAR has over one man year of testing and validation invested in Sandy Bridge and we have not see one instance of this issue in any test platform or customer system. Furthermore, we were just made aware of this issue this morning by Intel, and NOBODY, not a single motherboard partner, OEM, or integrator has had any information on this prior to today. The issue resides specifically with the hard drive controller in the chips for controllers ports 2-5, the SATA 3G ports. It does NOT affect the SATA 6G ports, or ports 0 and 1. Its an aging issue, not a critical hardware failure, and as such will not be seen by the majority of our customers. It is also not an issue where the customers data will be at risk. It is merely a performance degradation over time issue.
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