As previously reported, Intel's first wave of Sandy Bridge-E processors have VT-d (Intel Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O) disabled due to an errata in the C1 stepping. That issue couldn't be resolved in time for the launch but it's getting fixed with the C2 stepping which is set to start rolling out to customers on January 20th, 2012 (samples have already been delivered).
Intel Core i7-3960X and 3930K to get C2 stepping in January
Posted on Monday, December 12 2011 @ 22:50 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck