Best Buy's Sandy Bridge Rollout Screeches to a Halt
Best Buy's Sandy Bridge Rollout Screeches to a Halt
Posted 02/06/2011 at 11:07am
| by Justin Kerr
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We are willing to bet that the Intel Sandy Bridge chipset flaw impacted Maximum PC readers more than just about anyone else out there, but a group of Best Buy representatives contacted by CNET also feel particularly hard done by. As one of the biggest PC OEM retailers in North America, Best Buy claims it was ready to go with print advertisements, and was already deep into new product training by the time the problem was discovered.
A quick peek at the Google cache doesn’t show many Sandy Bridge options for sale as of Monday when the Intel announcement was made, but the retailer claims several SKU’s from all the major manufacturers had to be pulled at the last minute to avoid recall headaches down the line.
It’s a shame that Sandy Bridge is receiving so much bad press over chipset issues when the actual CPU itself is a remarkable piece of silicon. We have no doubt Best Buy was inconvenienced by this whole mess, but we expect Intel to take the brunt of the financial burden, and find some way to make it up to partners in the long run.
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Trooper_One
February 07, 2011 at 1:17pm
Sandy Bridge problems? I foresee that Geek Squad will recommend you a purchase of extended warranty - and when it's needed down the line, they'll say the warranty was void because of manufacturer error or some other bullshit. They'll just recommend you to buy a new hard drive and a new computer on your second repair visit.
fallout330
February 09, 2011 at 2:34pm
Typical Best Buy, wouldn't be surprised X-D
A nice place to browse, but I usually avoid purchasing from there.
Jims45wow
February 06, 2011 at 10:51pm
While they are redoing the chipset, they should allow the CPU video processing to be handed off to discrete graphics cards.
somethingelse
February 06, 2011 at 8:15pm
Would like to have a peak at the training material these fckin tools have. Would also like to know how many of the nimrods there can actually read it, let alone understand it.
Gezzer
February 06, 2011 at 8:08pm
I thought the bclock was now part of the CPU so you couldn't OC using it. With a locked muti and all most no room to ramp up the bclock what's this magic know how and imagination your talking about?
I could be wrong but I thought the K series were the only overclocking sandies.
itommyboy
February 06, 2011 at 1:43pm
The 2600K is a factory unlocked chip which is much more easily overclockable. The standard 2600 is not "unlocked" although it can still be OC'd, it just takes a bit more know how and imagination.
Slurpy
February 06, 2011 at 12:31pm
Question 4. The 2600K costs more than the 2600 because. . .
A. It's faster.
B. It's bluer.
C. It has an extra letter.
itommyboy
February 06, 2011 at 1:44pm
The 2600K is a factory unlocked chip which is much more easily overclockable. The standard 2600 is not "unlocked" although it can still be OC'd, it just takes a bit more know how and imagination.
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