We should also see a statement from Asus as soon as tomorrow indicating what their plans are. That'll determine if I use my 90-day window at the Egg or go to Asus directly.
There are a lot of opportunities to make this right to customers, but it's unlikely we'll see more than straight up replacement/repair. If they offered me a replacement, but would let me keep my "bad" board for some reasonable fee, that would be great. A discounted upgrade to a higher end SKU and/or a Z68-based board would be good too. I'm at least hoping to see a good advance replacement option. It'll probably all depend on how much, if any, Asus has to pick up, vs. whatever they get from Intel to handle this mess. It's Intel's fault, no doubt, but I didn't my board from Intel--I bought it from Asus. The responsibility is on Asus to make things right with me, and then to turn around and have Intel make it right to them. I'm glad Newegg is stepping in as well, and it's a credit to them, but I personally don't feel they have any responsibility to me at all. Of course, it's all overblown. Supposedly Intel expected the impact to be a 5-15% failure rate at 3 years. That's certainly bad, but it would have been nice if they had worked with their partners for a few more days to have plans ready immediately for an issue that is unlikely to be experienced by most, and definitely not this quickly after release. Supposedly many of their partners found out the same moment the rest of the world did. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 8:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [H] Intel hit with chipset design flaw in Sandy Bridge rollout > > They pretty much had too but that's good news. Intel doing the right thing. > Who'da thunk it. > > > > On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:43:13 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Egg is extending the return period on p67/h67 mobos by 90 days or > > whenever the vendor gets the new parts ready, whichever is longer. > > Check your mail. > > > > I knew they would do the right thing. > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/
