There is a major flaw in the latest 6 series 'Cougar Point' chipset which affects the Serial ATA Ports so i recall of the affected motherboards is needed.
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Intel has announced that it has identified a flaw in the design of Serial ATA ports on its newest 6 Series "Cougar Point" chipset, according to a press release. In some cases, this flaw causes ports to degrade over time, causing users to suffer from poor performance on any Serial ATA devices such as hard drives, DVD drives or BluRay drives. Only the newest second generation Core i5 and i7 series chips use the the 6 series chipsets.
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Read on....
http://www.neowin.net/news/intel-ide...-begins-recall
I was just considering an upgrade to this chipset too! Looks like i will wait a while.