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You agree to receive updates, promotions, and alerts from ZDNet. You may unsubscribe at any time. But one thing is clear. Virtu doesn't work with the P67 chipset. Now, it's an absolute fact that solid state drives SSDs make for a faster and more responsive PC compared to ye olde hard drives with spinning magnetic platters.
Of course, SSDs are still expensive and not terribly capacious. But what if you could have the performance of an SSD and capacity of traditional drive for a much smaller premium? Smart Response works by using a small SSD as a cache drive storing the most frequently accessed data. In theory, if you have all of the most performance-critical data accessible on a compact 20GB SSD, there's no need to pay full whack for a bigger drive.
Instead you can plump for a dirt cheap magnetic hard drive for mass storage. In practice, Smart Response does perform better than a conventional drive. But it's still significantly slower than a stand-alone SSD.
As it happens, Smart Response is also a little like Lucid's Virtu tech in so far as it's a software rather than hardware feature. But since Smart Response is a wholly owned Intel technology, it's not up to motherboard makers to decide which boards to bundle it with.
Intel has decreed that it's reserved for Z68 boards regardless of the fact that it would work perfectly well with the existing P67, H67 and H61 chipsets. All of which makes the Z68 a bit of a mixed bag. In simple hardware terms, it brings nothing new. It's effectively the same chipset as the H But courtesy of bringing P67's overclocking chops together with a little help from Lucid to get Quick Sync working properly, the Z68 is undoubtedly the best platform for Sandy Bridge chips.
It's the motherboard chipset Intel should have offered from the very beginning. Better late than never. But what's the best Intel Sandy Bridge motherboard? We've put eight through their paces to find out. Current page: Best Sandy Bridge motherboard. Technology and cars. Increasingly the twain shall meet. Which is handy, because Jeremy Twitter is addicted to both. Long-time tech journalist, former editor of iCar magazine and incumbent car guru for T3 magazine, Jeremy reckons in-car technology is about to go thermonuclear.
No, not exploding cars. That would be silly. Sandy Bridge systems sold to date are quad-core laptops and desktop PCs. Potentially affected systems have been shipping only since January 9. Most laptops have two SATA devices, such as a hard disk drive and optical drive that would be using the unaffected ports 0 and 1.
The data itself is not affected. So, if a consumer had an affected system, data could be accessed by moving the storage device to another system or a working port. How issue was discovered: Last week customers started telling Intel that there was an issue. As Intel stressed the part, Intel's labs started seeing a failure to access ports 2 through 5.
The Intel stress test simulated time passing and it showed that over time this issue could come up. How many Sandy Bridge chipsets shipped to date: 8 million.
But Intel claims relatively few are in customers' hands. Most of those are in the sales channel and will be pulled out of the channel. Intel is supporting PC makers in this effort. Issue fixed in new silicon: Intel has corrected the design issue--characterized by Intel as a "circuit design oversight"--and has begun manufacturing a new version of the chipset which will resolve the issue.
Delay of new Sandy Bridge chips: Intel expects to begin delivering the updated version of the chipset to customers in late February and expects full volume recovery in April. Analyst's take: Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64, a chip consulting firm. Affects consumer not corporate enterprise : It was caught during the testing of consumer-oriented products, so when Intel finally launches Sandy Bridge processors that are targeted at enterprise--typically with vPro capability--those systems won't have the issue.
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