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Comments on: Intel denies Core i7 glitch

HA-ha 

Posted Tuesday 2nd December 2008 22:05 GMT

Coat

"Intel [says] the incriminating paragraph relates to a Core 2 Duo issue which was fixed via a BIOS update before the launch of the Core i7."

In other words, "this will not manifest in real world conditions, mmmkay"...

Copycats!

It's OK 

Posted Tuesday 2nd December 2008 22:37 GMT

Boffin

There's nothing to wor6y about.) No data.will be lost will be lost or corrupte=atly exaggerated\02 Dec 21:51 PCs & Chy]s.

@kevin 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 00:38 GMT

Happy

lol! ;)

and there was no math problem with my P90 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 05:03 GMT

Unhappy

Give it up hosers and admit you have a problem and the fix is in the wild. That or move to Egypt

if you're going to live in denial.

Perhaps they need a memory translation hub 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 05:46 GMT

I am Pentium of Borg. Division is futile. You will be approximated.

Ha! 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 08:27 GMT

Thumb Up

They copied AMD's chip design so faithfully that they took the errors along too!

History repeating itself 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 08:59 GMT

Gates Horns

quite funny, I had a P75 post the intel calc bug and have used AMD ever since except in my laptops. If you do your research on MS knowledge base almost all Intel chips in the last 5-6 years have had bugs that have been patched at software level. I am sure if you search hard enough there are many bugs patched via manufacturer bios updates.

It would never have happened in the days of Pentiums 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 10:14 GMT

Coat

Intel are 99.99999998% sure there's no problem, according to their calculations...

While we're on the Intel jokes... 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 12:25 GMT

Go

Intel Insidd.zzzyx

Here we go again 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 19:23 GMT

Intel didn't have a problem with the Pentiums, Pentium 2's, Pentium 4's or any of their other chips. They have never had to do a mass recall/replace, now have they ever done a software patch to correct hardware flaws. Intel is perfect, and anyone who disagrees bust me working for the AMD PR department, and therefore stupid.

...and if you buy that... I'll tell ya another one.

Seriously, I've been using AMD kit for years, and don't have issues with them. Their chip designs have in my opinion been far better than Intel, and although they take longer to get to market with them, I'd rather wait, and buy something that has had the bugs worked out.

Right... 

Posted Wednesday 3rd December 2008 23:34 GMT

Black Helicopters

Can everyone get over this myth that the TLB bug killed the Phenom. Nobody cared about a bug which would never manifest itself. The reason it didn't sell like hot cakes is because the performance was inferior.

Who can forget 

Posted Thursday 4th December 2008 11:01 GMT

Flame

F0 0F C7 C8 - aka the F00F bug.

Flame, because the CPU goes Foof.

That can't be right... 

Posted Friday 5th December 2008 14:19 GMT

Joke

Can't be a problem with the Intel chips since Apple moved to Intel which means they must be the perfect chip as they exist in Perfection, Perfection Pro and Perfection Air?