Newegg has GT GulfTown
 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=Intel%20980x

Today's price $1,139

Gone ............ wow that was fast :ohcrap:

They probably only had 1 in stock.........

Sold out, oops better make it $1250 now lol. Think mine was like $1125 2 day shipped, but will get $97 back within the next month so $1028 total.

That's not a bad buy at all Splig as @ MC $ 999.99 + 6% slaes tax = $ 1059.98 to buy across the counter .... only upside is you can cherry pic at the store

wish I had the cash to join the party ..... guess I am stuck bointin with retro cards for the time being ........ :blush:

HAHA

This item can only be purchased with combo(limit 1 per customer)


Means you have to buy a motherboard with it, it seems ...

Tigerdirect ftw with bing cash back and B batch

My 980x is going on ebay by the end of the week, gonna get on the TD bandwagon :D

Yeppers. Saw them there the other day. All I can do is dream...

Me too. Pretty sad when a 46yr old guy has to wack off with a picture of a heat spreader in his other hand heh?

For the record, I hate that the egg is doing this. If folks were not so desperate to make 30 bucks on ebay flipping the 980's, we could get this shit in a couple of days. fargin bastages, cork sucking iceholes

He He! :D Believe me you are not the only one. This time around I'll actually wait and see how this all develops and not jump on this stuff right away. :Hi:

Michigan Microcenter has 3 in stock an their all A957 batch. Looks like microcenter has all the A batchs. Glad I called first.

What is the best batch so far? B batch?

Don't count A batches out. I am sure there are some good batches out there. Then again this might be like another 920 D0 where the 1st few batches sold were B batches and to date still smoke the rest. :D

yup. So far the B batch has it.

They were in stock at the egg when I looked just now

Haveto buy a mobo with it to get one though :thumbsdown:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-226-_-Product

They have oem chips on the egg right now.... no combo needed. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

oem means no warranty tho

:eek: Scary, $1k with no warranty

I wonder if they are the golden B batch ....

I thought it meant you only have no warranty through the egg. Should still fall under intel warranty for 3 yrs.... at the least 1yr.

Doesn't really say
http://www.intel.com/support/process...s-020033.htm#1

Newegg has no warranty what so ever for oem from the link they have on there.

No heatsink means no warranty from intel iirc.

Yeah this is what I think. OEMs have 1 year from Intel or at least it used to be that way and the Egg gives you 30 days return policy. Get it, bench it hard and return for a new one. There is no money back though from the Egg.

Any OEM chips I have bought clocked better for me than retail e8400, E8500, e8700, Q6600. With retail Ive had to keep buying chips to get a good one. Just sharing my expierience with them.

Yeah, 1 year from intel :) I've killed several OEM chips and never had any hassle getting them replaced :thumbsup:

I called Intel, and they do NOT provide any warranty on oem products. Up to the vendor or builder. I also went on chat with them, and got the same answer.

^ and Rom drops the hammer.

I think we might be referring to different things, I believe that OEM can refer to different things. One would be chips that came out of a dell/hp/etc, I know Intel provides no warranty on those. Also, chips are sold as OEM by Newegg/Frys/etc that don't included heatsinks. All I can say is that I've RMA'd several chips that I bought from fry's without a heatsink without issue. Of course I could be totally wrong :)

Could be Deux. I just didn't want any of our guys to jump on the 980x oem at the egg, then burn one up a couple of months later, only to find that the egg nor intel will warrant it....bad mojo. Perhaps intel is tightening up there policies? I just don't think that its worth the risk, especially at -186 @ 1.9v;)

Totally agree, if you're dropping $1000 on a chip may as well pay the few extra for the assurance the warranty brings :thumbsup:

You can now buy the retail cpu @ newegg WITHOUT COMBO

Just noticed they removed the combo restriction ;)

*Digs around in couch*

Shit, I'm a little short..... anyone got $998.35 Laying around? :laughing:

Newegg's price is still too high.

So what was the consensus on the OEM cpu sold by the egg? Is it covered by Intel's 3 year or not?

No warranty on OEM, I didn't realize there was a question about that, always been that way.

The egg is definitely high on these, not sure why. They are back out of stock again now anyway.

No warranty except the 30day replacement by newegg. I wouldn't do it Elano.:thumbdown:
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