New Intel 8-series chipset products in September

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/19/2013 08:56 AM | source: | 4 comment(s)

Intel's 8-series chipsets, designed for Haswell-based processors, are seeing defects in their USB 3.0 feature, and although Intel has distributed fixed chipsets to motherboard and notebook players in July, products are unlikely to show up until September or October, according to sources from PC players.

The USB 3.0 ports of the 8-series chipsets will become unworkable after entering or leaving Windows sleep mode, the sources explained.

Compared to the defect issue with Intel's 6-series chipsets, the problem with the 8-series is a lot better, it has a rather low occurrence rate and can only occur under Windows 8, the sources said.

However, since the defects are not the cause of weak demand, even with the fix, consumer demand may still have trouble picking up in September, the sources noted.

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#4622439 Posted on: 07/19/2013 09:10 AM

The z77 offered some really nice additions to the z68, the z87 offers what, power saving features?
no thanks, gonna stick with Ivy and throw some uber fast ram in, like i've been sayin for the longest time lol.
Even Ivy-e is gonna be uber coupled with super fast ram, which'll push it over 10% improvement on sandy-e imo.
But sure if you're coming from an older setup haswell is fine for sure.

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#4622633 Posted on: 07/19/2013 04:08 PM

This may go a long way in explaining why the second generation are holding their price so well, and becoming even more expensive on some websites like amazon and Novatech.

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#4622714 Posted on: 07/19/2013 06:09 PM

Im at win8 and so far so good

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#4622769 Posted on: 07/19/2013 07:13 PM

I've not had decent reliable USB 3 yet since X58 and about 10 different mobo's across 5 different vendors.
The worst one yet - VIA VL800 - on a Gigabyte X79S-UP5 - I've had to disable which looses the 4 ports at the back - random BSOD's whenever it's enabled (and not just when it's in use.)

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