Quote Originally Posted by Speederlander View Post
How many people have posted on XS complaining about their dud ES chip, especially during the pre-release or hot-off-the-presses marketing phase?

The difference is that Intel isn't going to give out "duds" to people who they want to tout their new chips on-line. The ES chips in the marketing build-up are well binned and not necessarily representative of retail. As we have already seen with some people getting less than stellar results with these chips retail already.

It's just common sense that ES chips passed out for marketing purposes are going to be above average or well above average.
Here is a quote from someone I have a great deal of respect for:

Quote Originally Posted by mdzcpa View Post
If you look you can find mediocre ES clocks. No one wants to post about them though
I have had some I have bought that clocked poorly and they went to Ebay. I did not post in bold letters, like your reply, that I got a dud ES chip. I think that is what most who get their hands on poor clocking ones do.

Your logic says there are no poor clockers, Intel would not send them out. We know that there are some poor clocking ES chips.

Sorry Dumo to go OT on your thread.