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

[hecktic]

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

Yep. NCIX/NCIXUS is otherwise doing an excellent job on both pricing and customer service. Shipping express $9.99 is a nice offer to combine with a great selling chip. Hope it lasts for another few weeks.

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% 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.

Who knows... might have just been for that 1 day of stock.... Linus just said they will only be telling people company policy from now on, in regards to these kinds of questions/requests.

In another week or two all the B3 will be gone on the Q6600 anyways..

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.

Try 24 hr prime or orthos.. then compare with someone on the same oc results using G0.. you will see the difference is because mainly the TDP is rated lower on the G0 core stepping.

Temperatures will always be variable by the ambient, TIM type, etc...

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

With the price drop they did today to $339 then $329 I would not be so sure about that... plus why bother buying from them when there are dozens of the other places you can buy from cheaper and sometimes also free shipping.

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.

They can only gaurantee if they look at the side of each box and find the sSpec Number, which is the last part of the manufacturer model number; SL9UM is B3 core stepping and SLACR is G0 core stepping. Main concern for heavy ocers again is the TDP difference. Going from B3 rated at a TDP of 105w down to a G0 rated at only 95w. Theoretically lower temperatures are expected which can help overclocking performance almost always.

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?

G0 core stepping there

NCIXUS.com Confirmed

BX80562Q6600SLACR

Arrives Fri Morn

G0 core stepping there

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?

Read above.

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.

Not too bad. Compare your batch with others to see how far you *should* be able to take your chip to in terms of overclocking.