Intels Pentium D 900 has TDP and EIST bug...

[Wolf2000me]

Hey

It would seem that Intels Pentium D 900 is rather buggy. Read the article.

http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/9256

Imo Intel still hasn't learned that hitting the market with a too fast released product can have severe consequences (cfr. Itanium). I'd like to hear what you guys think.

[cloasters]

I so hate to bad mouth Intel. Do they have any excuse to release shoddy processors? Greed isn't a justification.

[Gizmo]

Front Page, Wolf2000me! www.aoaforums.com

Thanks for the headsup!

[Pitch]

Same old story.

[Aedan]

I'd put it to you that the particular bug in this instance is not such a show stopper. For those who think that Intel is bad, just take a look at the errata for AMD's Athlon 64/Opteron processors! You can find it here

[SoddemFX]

Holy moly!

-and i only just scan read that Aedan. Reading 67 errata completely would have taken quite some time

Tom

[Gizmo]

Actually, that's not all that bad. I remember some of the Motorola errata sheets for the old 68000 family had over 100 entries.

[tiamat63]

Hmm I look back to the FDIV bug *shudders*

Not suprising. Then again, anything with Hyperthreading also has those big issues with FreeBSD....remember?

[Daniel ~]

So what's the solution when defects hit the selves and make into our hands? Must drive programmers crazy if I'm right in assuming they have to take up the slack?

[Gizmo]

Sigh

In the case of programmers, as with most things, you have two camps: the "I'm just here to get a paycheck' camp, and the "I TOLD you that was a bad idea!" camp.

Generally, the former makes the mess and the later get flogged to clean it up. Until they decide that they would rather work somewhere else.....

[Daniel ~]

So general indifference saves their sanity...I've seen a lot of that! ":O}

[S_Wilson]

Intel said some time back that Presler would not have these features until 2Q/06. I, for one, could care less for those particular features.