I guess the thing to do would be try and grab an es from ebay and not get a warranty

then again the guys that have the ES usually know when they have a good ES and wont sell it.

:ohcrap: 2.4ghz A0 stepping on there now :P

Well from what rumors are around the chip will die easily if pushed. So you're stuck with major bointage with a strong CPU that may die, or warranty with a "most likely" to clock less CPU that will still give boints. What to do, what to do??

Best thing to do is sit back a month and observe. Of course now that is easier said than done.

^ wisdom


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but man it would be great if you do get a hot rod ............

The general consensus on B1 Stepping is that its utter crap. I don't have anything reliable in the way of b2 stepping yet.

Sometimes you roll the dice and you get lucky tho, there have a been a few times when I bought blindly at the egg and wound up with a better than decent performing chip.

Two schools of thought on these chips.

1) Roll the dice and pick up a chip which may or may not perform marginally better than bloomfield
2) Sit tight and set aside funds till the timing is right to pounce on better performing batches + see fermi results.

1) roll them dice baby! have my lady blow on em first ;)

i960 has been an epic egg chip for me, lets keep the streak alive. Would be sick if tiger direct carried them, 13% bing cash back, $130 off.

i rolled the dice on the

i7920 when it first came out 5.4ghz bam!
i570 when 6.9ghz bam!

i7980 and i got 6.8ghz...toink LOL

bwahhahahahhaha

Looked up your profile on them clocks, what happened to the 5.4ghz CPU-Z i7 920? Did it not wanna run 2 benches?

Now this is pretty insane! :thumbsup:

http://cgi.ebay.com/GULFTOWN-XEON-i9...item45f1b39964

Far as I've heard, this is a good batch for sub-zero and should hit 6ghz+

If I had a sack I would buy it lol wait what?

Seems like a decent price.... Wonder if it is a dud-me-down though.

More results in on retail http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=247778

mobo maybe was hurt.....i'll get a a new classy after april or so....i hope shammy brings out a new classy :D

i still have the cpu..safe :D