Taiwanese notebook and PC component maker ASUS has announced that it has begun shipping replacement B3-stepping motherboards and notebooks. The news comes as the company announces the reintroduction of Intel’s troubled platform is ahead of schedule. Chip giant Intel announced on January 31 that a design flaw affecting hard drive connections had been found and [...]
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Taiwanese motherboard maker MSI is one of the first out of the blocks with Intel’s new budget H61-chipset motherboard and the first so far to feature the B3-stepping fix for Intel’s Sandy Bridge chipset. The H61MU-E35 will handle all LGA1155 socketed processors from Intel, offers up to 16GB of RAM through two DIMM sockets, features [...]
Not wasting any time, Taiwanese component and notebook maker MSI has just announced it has begun manufacture of replacement Sandy Bridge motherboards with the new B3-stepping 6-series chipset. The company announced that consumers would be able to tell the new product by looking for this sticker (pictured) indicating use of B3-stepping parts. Chip giant Intel [...]