I hope you guys see the paradox, in one hand, you are asking for samples , as a community, but in the other hand, inside this community, there are people selling what they got for free, and got it from somebody who did not respect his engagement (NDA) about this samples ... As long as people inside the OC community do this traffic, it is fairly hard to considere the OC community seriously for sampling ... Just sit in my place, and look at the problem from there.
People are trying to make money of something they don't own, if you pay for a Sample, I can repossese it anytime. They are just borrowed part and are always the property of Intel.

I am not trying to blame anybody here, But understand that the team of F1 don't go and steel and sell the engines of Mercedes or Renault ... If you want to be treated as a serious sport, It has to go by not doing nasty stuffs in the league. This start by excluding ES from the competitions, too often, I see top overclockers bragging about their ES they got under covers ... This is not a sign of an Healthy Overclocker, but more a sign of Mafia ... ;-)

I hope you guys understand that I am trying to help the OC community to become a more serious organization, through all of those advise.

To conclude, Yes, we do purchase often ES Chips, and yes, some people get in trouble, and every time, I am like "Dude! What was you thinking!!!"

A clean sport has to be ... clean!
Francois