Hardware problems, forced Intel to put off the mass deliveries of Yorkfield processors to the second-half of the following block . Problem concerned 45 nm processors Core 2 quad with four core, which work at 1333 MHz bus frequency . The problem appears with such processors in motherboard with four-layer design.
In December , Intel company published the new revision of document about the corrections in processor Core 2 extreme QX9650 (3.0 GHz). In this document appeared a reference about AV51 error , which appears with the specific combinations of processor, chipset and motherboard in synthetic tests.
Error is connected with frontal system bus voltage, it appears with the transmission of data between cores . Intel adds, that the error appears rarely .
Intel reports that there is no operational solution for the problem proposed for the existing processor Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3.0 GHz), but it will be realized in future. It remains to assume that new stepping will completely remove the risk of such problem. Related Products :
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