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Originally Posted by Dentlord
So the real question is are the retail b1 stepping a complete waste of money?
I know its the nature of the game, but it sucks that all the favorites get the es that kick major ass and get us all excited about the chip, then when it goes retail the rest of us get crap ($1100 dollar crap at that)
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I ran into that with the QX9650, QX9770, 965XE cpu's
Made me decided not to buy XE cpu's anymore unless I was very sure of the stepping.
Just hang out a bit before you buy one, see what people post and make notes on batch numbers. Don't buy online unless they can give you a batch number.