Post your recent Q6600 purchases here (The Lookout for g0)

[sofarfrome]

this is just a suggestion... but if all the purchases were consolidated in the first post, it would be a lot easier to know where to buy from. For example:

a table like this containing the data would be helpful:

Name of E-tailer. date of purchase. stepping. pack date.

something like thta, then we can also see what percentage of people recieved a g0 from a given etailer

It would also make more sense than the 10 or so other threads talking about the same thing.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

question @ linus

are the steppings from here on out going to be G0 aka SLACR and the B3's will become less common?


p.s.
its really nice to see a rep from a large distro like NCIX actually participating in these forums, so thanks for that.

[LinusTech]

Well I'm very impatient so I pay for the fatest shipping available. I just canxed my order and since there was no guarantee of getting a G0 I'm just going to wait this one out until Tankguys get them in stock. Oh Well.

Every customer has individual needs. I'm sorry we weren't able to meet yours this time around

@the above post:

Yes. You can expect to see fewer and fewer B3 chips as time goes on. What's being sold right now is the fresh shipments of G0 from Intel, as well as leftover B3 chips (from retailers, distribution, and right up to Intel themselves, so it takes a while to trickle down).

The leftovers will disappear faster in this case than they have in the past due to the enormous demand for this chip, but we could still ship a B3 in a month if a distributor finds a box of them in a back room somewhere or something. This sort of thing is fairly commonplace actually. There's room for human error at every level.

[chriskurn]

My G0 <-I Hope shipped today from NCIXUS.com

Fed-ex Next Day

[hecktic]

Ah, 14-year-old logic.

You do know that Tankguys is like a 3-man operation, right? They are TINY and can afford to open all boxes they get to look for G0 steppings. NCIX is a reseller supplied from Ingram Micro, etc. that deals in VOLUME. They can't, nor should be expected, to open all the processor boxes they get to hunt for a particular stepping.

I can just see all the jerks that didn't get the WEEK code they wanted in a month bi#$hing about it and wanting people to sort the chips by week now.


Grow the F up.

Yes Im well aware of tankguys and how they operate. I was only saying in the context of this thread, if people want G0 then they will only complain if they dont have it... just read the earlier pages of this thread.

Personally I chose not to buy from either store and just wait off until the next price drop which isnt too far away from now...

I never guaranteed anything officially or unofficially through PM. I said that most of what we had in stock was G0, and that if you ordered you *should* get a G0. I specificially said I couldn't guarantee it because the situation can change so quickly.

At the time I sent that PM most if not all of our stock was G0.

Since then we've received not one, but two additional shipments. No one has inquired directly to me since we've received those and I haven't checked because I'm not located at our shipping warehouse. If someone asked me now what we have I would say "I don't know".

All I'm doing is giving you the best information I have at the time it's requested of me.

Regards,

Linus

I never said you did gaurantee.... if you read some of the posts earlier in this thead and the other G0 threads you will see how people claimed they called up NCIX and were informed that in fact all stock were G0.... I believe you already were aware of that from when I sent you the pm about it few days ago.

Im just saying if that was not true then how exactly can NCIX support such a claim?

I mean the fact is NCIX is carrying both B3 and G0. So the proper way to have answered that question when those people called up NCIX was to say the inventory will almost always contain a mix of both G0 and B3 core stepping. As simple as that.... I think you will agree.

P.S. As I said you are just doing your job and I respect that, you have not done anything wrong here.. I suppose it is just the fact that you told me via pm after I sent you that information above that it *should* be a G0 if the order was placed that threw me off personally... again no offense to you in any of this.... your just doing your job

[Xilikon]

Every customer has individual needs. I'm sorry we weren't able to meet yours this time around

@the above post:

Yes. You can expect to see fewer and fewer B3 chips as time goes on. What's being sold right now is the fresh shipments of G0 from Intel, as well as leftover B3 chips (from retailers, distribution, and right up to Intel themselves, so it takes a while to trickle down).

The leftovers will disappear faster in this case than they have in the past due to the enormous demand for this chip, but we could still ship a B3 in a month if a distributor finds a box of them in a back room somewhere or something. This sort of thing is fairly commonplace actually. There's room for human error at every level.

That's true and don't forget that for 1 enthusiast, there are maybe 5 casual users who don't overclock so they don't care what stepping. We all hope those casual users will get the undesirable stepping while letting the good ones to enthusiasts. That's just your luck of the draw.

[LinusTech]

Yes Im well aware of tankguys and how they operate. I was only saying in the context of this thread, if people want G0 then they will only complain if they dont have it... just read the earlier pages of this thread.

Personally I chose not to buy from either store and just wait off until the next price drop which isnt too far away from now...



I never said you did gaurantee.... if you read some of the posts earlier in this thead and the other G0 threads you will see how people claimed they called up NCIX and were informed that in fact all stock were G0.... I believe you already were aware of that from when I sent you the pm about it few days ago.

Im just saying if that was not true then how exactly can NCIX support such a claim?

I mean the fact is NCIX is carrying both B3 and G0. So the proper way to have answered that question when those people called up NCIX was to say the inventory will almost always contain a mix of both G0 and B3 core stepping. As simple as that.... I think you will agree.

P.S. As I said you are just doing your job and I respect that, you have not done anything wrong here.. I suppose it is just the fact that you told me via pm after I sent you that information above that it *should* be a G0 if the order was placed that threw me off personally... again no offense to you in any of this.... your just doing your job

No worries man. We're all doing our best over here to give the information we have when we have it. If they told you it was all G0 in the back, then it's very likely that that was the last they'd heard. They shouldn't have guaranteed it, but that's in the past now, and the appropriate people have been informed that they should only tell people the official company policy.

No offence taken. Don't worry

[96redformula]

I am just wondering why the people answering the phones said that they only had g0 steppings left over. I took a chance when it was first reported that all were g0's and I DID get a g0. I can understand the frustration with those that were expecting g0's and got b3's. I made my decision willing to take that chance. The only way to have been 100&#37; sure would have been to have called and had them tell you they would have one shipped out to you.

As other have stated, GOOD JOB NCIX on representing on the forums and clearing up the issue.

[The Nemesis]

I'm wondering why are we still on this subject!!!!

My results with my G0 are nothing to get excited over. It's performing the same as my B3, just running cooler. I was able to boot @ 3.7Ghz which was Pi stable but not 3DMark06 stable. This was on the eVGA 680i T1. 400 X 9 on the eVGA is sometimes stable & sometimes not. It's always stable on the DFI P965-S though, but won't do 3.7Ghz. Because this chip is behaving so much like the other, I believe it's my motherboards. I have the DFI 680i on the way and will post back some better results then. It would seem if you're going after a G0 chip you need to have a P35 board to unleash its potential. Other wise its just a cool running Quad with similar performance to the B3.

[newls1]

newegg is now shipping the G0 out. I read the reviews and people are proclaiming this fact

[dinos22]

I'm wondering why are we still on this subject!!!!

My results with my G0 are nothing to get excited over. It's performing the same as my B3, just running cooler. I was able to boot @ 3.7Ghz which was Pi stable but not 3DMark06 stable. This was on the eVGA 680i T1. 400 X 9 on the eVGA is sometimes stable & sometimes not. It's always stable on the DFI P965-S though, but won't do 3.7Ghz. Because this chip is behaving so much like the other, I believe it's my motherboards. I have the DFI 680i on the way and will post back some better results then. It would seem if you're going after a G0 chip you need to have a P35 board to unleash its potential. Other wise its just a cool running Quad with similar performance to the B3.

i don't know about that man

XtremeTiramisu CPU is priming at 3.8GHz @1.45v
hopefully more will do the same and there is no chance you'll get any B3 Q6600 do that on air with mid-20C ambients

[NGPlease]

I just PICKED UP a q6600 from the burnaby branch. It was a SL9UM aka B3. Tad dissapointed but from what I can see from some of the O/C reports it's not that big of a deal.

[denden]

thks a lot RML, while seems not as good as L723A765 but anyway I will go get the same code as yours and play around this weedend.

Denden,

Firstly I'll post any future tests in a more appropriate thread.

Secondly just about to re-install windows etc. so won't be benching for a bit.

Have just done another quick ten minute prime.

400x9 vcore set to 1.5v memory 1000mhz 4-4-4-12 1T

Note: My motherboard seems to have some pretty severe vdroop Idle 1.45-1.46v (-0.05) at Load it's dropping down to 1.41-1.43v (-0.9)

Temps in coretemp maxing out at 48c. They do seem to be pretty even across the cores, more so than my qx6700

10 minute prime no problems.

This chip is already out performing my QX6700. My memory is a little bit vague regarding vdroop etc, but my QX needed about 1.46v to hit 3.52 with any real stability prime wise. Temps would be around 58-68c.

One last note, to be honest I never extensively prime tested my QX6700. Just short runs really. That said I used that chip for a whole lot of 3d rendering, pushing all cores to their limits and it was rock solid.

So conclusion for this Q6600 Go so far is a big thumbs up.

RLM

[AcuraDC5]

Forget NCIX. ClubIT has the Q6600 for 305 with free shipping. They guarantee G0 but you have to call them to place an order.

Just ordered mine and there is a waitlist, but as of 2 hours ago, there was only about 24 people listed.

There is no pre-order charge, G0 is guaranteed, shipping is free. Can't beat that.

[nicepun]

Well I decided to take a trip to the local MicroCenter since they are listing the Q6600 for $299 but they didn't have any in stock, they said maybe next week, in the meantime I ended up buying an E6750 (I don't know why) but I think I'm not going to open and go back to MircoCenter and exchange it for a Q6600. They'll let me pick the stepping (I asked).

[rdmty]

newegg is now shipping the G0 out. I read the reviews and people are proclaiming this fact

well, I've never really trusted the reviews at newegg, I mean have you actually read some of the reviews posted there?

Updated first post, not much content as most people just bought from ncix.

[jimmyz]

Well I decided to take a trip to the local MicroCenter since they are listing the Q6600 for $299 but they didn't have any in stock, they said maybe next week, in the meantime I ended up buying an E6750 (I don't know why) but I think I'm not going to open and go back to MircoCenter and exchange it for a Q6600. They'll let me pick the stepping (I asked).

microcenter in sharonville oh. only had b3 tuesday when i was there.

[rdmty]

was about to order one from ncixus, but their page lists the price as $288, but if you add to the cart it gets listed at $304 :/

[mstp2009]

Got shipping confirmation from NCIXUS - BX80562Q6600SLACR

Ordered about 10AM this morning.

States it is going out today, Canada Express.

Anyone know what the typical transit time to USA is?

[chriskurn]

NCIXUS.com Confirmed

BX80562Q6600SLACR

Arrives Fri Morn

[dinos22]

hehehe great avatar there

[Vienna]

SL9UM here , I gotta say thou, SL9UM reminds me of SLUM, and SLACR makes me think of like a RAZR lol

What are the overclocks like on the B3's/SL9UM anyways?

[The Nemesis]

i don't know about that man

XtremeTiramisu CPU is priming at 3.8GHz @1.45v
hopefully more will do the same and there is no chance you'll get any B3 Q6600 do that on air with mid-20C ambients

My chips has the exact same markings as his on the box & cpu. My Ambients are higher than his and he's using a P5K. It's said the latest bios for the DFI 680i is prepared for clocking quads so I'm gonna give it a go. My chip is currently priming on air (Scythe Infinity Stock) on the DFI P965-S Dark 3.4Ghz 1.37v load, 1.4v bios. Smart Guardian says 48'C-52'c, core temp says 60'C peak on the hottest core. The chip is better then the B3 if you have a poor one, but if you have a B3 like mine it may not quite be worth the investment for 100MHz or so more with same board. I'm sure If I drop it in a P35 it will fly just like XtremeTiramisu's. I intend to do just that if necessary, but for the next week I must have SLI.

[jeffyjaixx]

L723A765 here.

Ordered Tuesday afternoon and got it Wednesday morning.

Gigabyte needs to work on their next bios soon... for some reason whenever I go 1.4000 + vcore in bios... the system becomes really unstable.

Right now, I'm doing 1.3000 vcore in bios for 358x9 (3.222 Ghz) and CPU-Z shows 1.25 vcore at load. Vdroop is killing me.

[palese]

I'm wondering why are we still on this subject!!!!

My results with my G0 are nothing to get excited over. It's performing the same as my B3, just running cooler. I was able to boot @ 3.7Ghz which was Pi stable but not 3DMark06 stable. This was on the eVGA 680i T1. 400 X 9 on the eVGA is sometimes stable & sometimes not. It's always stable on the DFI P965-S though, but won't do 3.7Ghz. Because this chip is behaving so much like the other, I believe it's my motherboards. I have the DFI 680i on the way and will post back some better results then. It would seem if you're going after a G0 chip you need to have a P35 board to unleash its potential. Other wise its just a cool running Quad with similar performance to the B3.

And that is fine with me after living with the Q6700 for so long, I could never get my head around that heat it put out.