Quote Originally Posted by Dumo View Post
At least at my local 3 Micro Centers 2600K and 2500K sale still going strong (even without any P67 mobo on the shelf)

On the week of 1/29 most of their inventory were batches L042BXXX and L050AXXX. Just last night all were L041Cs
Interesting, so they are suddenly bringing out many C-batches out of the magic hat now?

If I may speculate a bit, Intel tend to bring out good batches whenever they want to push the marked for more sales. They did it with w3565 (If I remember the model# eight) last round. They kept some good week-48-batch# in storage for over 1 year and used it in w3565 to push new sales, in last round.
Based on these speculative logic, Intel may be trying to regain some marked that has been shattered by failing MBs. Anyways, I hope we can see more of these C-batches in action soon.