Puget Also Takes Measures Regarding Intel 6 Chipset Flaw

As one would have expected, yet another one of Intel's partners has taken the microphone to announce what it plans to do in regards to the few mainboards that were revealed to be subject to said shortcoming.

No doubt many end-users will have already learned that Intel just a while ago discovered a flaw in its 6-Series Cougar Point chipset.

The problem leads to degradation of SATA ports and may cause functionality issues with storage units.

So far, Gigabyte and Micro-Star International have already halted all sales of affected motherboards and are thinking of RMA strategies.

Puget has now joined the list of companies that have to take measures to reduce the 'damage' brought about by Intel's unfortunate oversight.

The company says it has three affected boards in its systems, them being Asus P8P67-M Pro, the P8P67 Pro and the P8H67-M EVO.

The company seems to see the issue as less serious than one may expect, mainly because, as it points out, not all SATA ports are affected.

Basically, any port run by a RAID or a PCI-E SATA controller should work just fine.

This does not mean that Puget won't offer to replace already bought hardware, however, or at least compensate for the defect.

As the company itself said, PCI-E SATA controller cards will be shipped to those customers that use affected boards, if they so decide.

The other option is for end-users to wait until March, when Puget will finally be ready to allow users to replace their computers.

“You can continue to use your PC with confidence,” says the company's official press release.

“When the replacement hardware arrives in March, we can either get your system back here for motherboard replacement, or we can ship you a PCI-E SATA controller to drop in to your system to use instead of the problem ports on the motherboard. We will be contacting you if you are affected with your current SATA port usage.”