Computers with Sandy Bridge Defects can be exchanged

Because there are defects in the Sandy Bridge newest Intel Recall 8 Million Sandy Bridge Chip. Well, this case clearly cause problems for computer manufacturers who overdo adopt Sandy Bridge.

Several vendors began a program to protect consumers from defective Sandy Bridge. Samsung for example, offers a turn of money to consumers who already bought a computer-based Sandy Bridge.

"There are six

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More Latency Tweaks for Desktop Users

For those of you who got hooked already by the magical kernel patch that went into 2.6.38 and seriously improved latency with high load, there is a special daemon now that takes it further: uLatencyD. And for the lazy Ubuntu people there is a ppa available, too:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:poelzi/ulatencyd-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ulatencyd

It works immediately and in my experience so far: veeery nice.

Enjoy.

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Intel Recall 8 Million Sandy Bridge Chip

Because there are defects in the Sandy Bridge newest Intel chipset shipments stopped and pulled from the market. As a result, Intel had to bear the cost of replacement of approximately USD 700 million.

Not only that, as reported Dvice and quoted on Tuesday (2/1/2011), the chip giant had to postpone the sale of up to three months.

Intel reported that it had identified that the problem was not

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