Intel Facing HEDT Chipset Troubles, Again?

[LiveOrDie]

I don't think i'm using RSTe i'm using just the normal RST drivers on my x99.

 

[Schmuckley]

Zomy! You mean I can only RAID 0 6 drives with TRIM enabled? Such a travesty!

(I only have 4)

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Yeah, I'd be more pissed about this if I'd actually bought into it.

Completely new RAM (Read: insanely high pricing and no real selection), combined with a new motherboard, leads me to question whether upgrading is worth it.


I've made peace with X79 delivering way less SATA connectivity than initially suggested. I see little reason that X99 is a necessary upgrade right now. Maybe Skylake will deliver on promises, but I don't see why I should care right now.



As to people calmly accepting Intel failures, while railing against AMD, I don't understand. Who exactly is still angry with AMD? After the bulldozer mistake, AMD has been behind Intel at every turn (with the exception of ATI providing a decent GPU for APUs). Intel products perform better, but cost more. We've accepted that, and if you don't I'd ask what rock you've been living under for the past decade?

If you personally don't accept it, then buy only AMD processors. You'll quickly note high-end Intel costs double that of high-end AMD. We've accepted it, because them charging that much actually has been accepted.

 

[xenocide]

Way to make this something it remotely isn't...

I would say the opposite is true even. Not many people were up in arms when Phenom dropped ~10% behind expectations because of a necessary BIOS fix to a manufacturing defect, but for some reason Intel says 1-2 of your SATA ports might be a bit funky and people pretend the entire platform is crap. Lets keep things in perspective people.

I feel as if in the recent past, Intel is not only releasing chipsets but also processors one revision too soon. In their latest products, the early adopters have gotten burned because one major feature is broken at release and only fixed in a newer stepping that comes out months later. Intel should delay releases by a few months, produce one more stepping that fixes errata, then release that stepping as the only version.

I think they should just copy AMD and stop releasing new products. If you don't release anything new you can just spend monthes and years refining your single product. /s

As to people calmly accepting Intel failures, while railing against AMD, I don't understand. Who exactly is still angry with AMD? After the bulldozer mistake, AMD has been behind Intel at every turn (with the exception of ATI providing a decent GPU for APUs). Intel products perform better, but cost more. We've accepted that, and if you don't I'd ask what rock you've been living under for the past decade?

I wish AMD had competative products, but they just don't outside of a few niche applications, which isn't enough to cover up being so far behind in 90%+ of applications. I'm kind of annoyed AMD got peoples hopes up with continuing to support AM3+ up through Piledriver then just completely abandoning it--minus a few super expensive SKUs nobody really wanted, and that they--mostly because of miserably bad management in the mid 2000's--squandered a golden opportunity where they were on the cutting edge of microprocessor design. They have done a lot of great things, some not so great things, and some pretty embarassing things in the years since the Athlon64 was king of the hill.

 

[xorbe]

I'm a little confused to what the actual problem is. I see the following facts, 6 for raid, 4 for not raid. Is the problem that people want all ten for raid? Or is it that raid+trim doesn't work?

 

[Disparia]

I'm a little confused to what the actual problem is. I see the following facts, 6 for raid, 4 for not raid. Is the problem that people want all ten for raid? Or is it that raid+trim doesn't work?

From earlier:

The original post wasn't very clear, so allow me to clarify. There are two issues with the latest RSTe release:

1.) SATA ports 0-5 do not support TRIM on RAID 0
2.) SATA ports 6-9 do not install an Intel driver and revert to a standard Microsoft driver.

If you ask me, #2 is the bigger concern - you don't want a driver package that doesn't actually install a driver. It's good that Intel pulled the release; otherwise, people would install the newer release thinking it was better and more stable than the old one, which it obviously is not.