Quote Originally Posted by hipro5 View Post
@ celemine1Gig: One question.
I paid 1000 Euros for an ES CPU....
Is it MINE or Intel's OR we are some kind of "partners" into this?
When Intel come one day and ASK this cpu from me, they HAVE to PAY me 1000 Euros to take it back...
There were days back in the past that I was collecting money to buy an ES Northwood and I REALLY didn't have money to buy food to eat or cigarettes to smoke only to buy this cpu......
.....and NOW they come and tell us this bulls?.....

As I said above, Intel send your representatives to get MY ES CPUs and I assure you that they will leave my place with an "AMD stump" on their head...
COME AND GET THEM...
Well, I totally understand your situation. I think Intel has absolutely no problem with you having the chips in your posession (not that I would be affiliated with Intel in any way; just a poor student trying not to learn for his exams ).
I even think that it's quite the contrary. They sure would love to see you have even more ES CPUs if only enough people at Intel knew about what you (already) achieve(d) with them. Sadly enough you might be a legend here and you'll have my respect until the day I die, but I highly doubt that any high ranked Intel employee knows what to make of the name "hipro5".

The real problem is in the middle men who sell you what they don't own! They ask big money from you, although they are not allowed to and even cause you the problems, described in this whole thread. You shouldn't even be mad at Intel, but rather at the one who sold you an ES for such a hefty price. The message that Francois wanted to give might have come out wrong in some way. I really don't think that he wanted to accuse the top overclockers for having ES chips or even for buying them.