Quote Originally Posted by Drwho? View Post
boblemagnifique , look at the date of creation of this thread and who created it ... I saw an explosion of 975 ES sells on OCbay and ebay. Nicely, I tried to warn everybody here, without finger pointing, and I explained that the ES are property of Intel, and you can not sell them.

I posted this thread the 06-27-2009, 03:28 PM , the sale of the ES was closed Jul-04-09 ... I gave everybody time to understand and cancel their "bad idea" ... I saw many cancelling it.

What else can I do? calling every body one per one ... I can 't do this, I would get into trouble too, I am not the Sheriff!!! I would like people to get their senses and try understanding, I don't want to punish, I want to educate.
I don't want to blame either, the only thing I can do is to make sure that those people don't get sponsored from my side, and can't participate to competitions ...
Aurelien is a nice guy, I hope he is trying to get the ES back and cancel the all sell.
There is always ways to fix and arrange problems.

come on guys, what I am asking is not that difficult, don t sell ES and everybody will be happy!



Francois
PS: You wanted Intel to be open, I am here for that, don't shoot at me when I tell you that something is off limit .. selling intel property is OFF limits.
I generally try to be polite when I post here.
I generally try to "see the other side" when I post here.
Your orginal post I replied to politely.
Your post nameing Boble brought out in me an instant anger and an image of a multi billion dollar corporation bringing down the wrath of God on a guy that I've met and seemed to be a decent guy and that is why you got that reply from me.
I still stand by the statement that we are not your enemy and "we" in no way at all effect intels profit structure except in a positive way.
I want you to think on this for a moment.
I'm a relatively poor guy compared to most but there is in excess of $40,000.00 in computer hardware in my house.
Not a business mind you, but my home.
At rough estimate I have spent over $10,000.00 on Intel cpu's over the last 3 years.
Those are retail cpu's not ES's that I've purchased.
I don't hurt you. On the contrary I help with the bottom line at intel far above what the average PC enthusiast does.
Every guy on this forum is like me to one degreee or another.
We far outspend any average number per person you could mention.
Even George(Hipro5) with his yelling here I can speak for.
I have bought retail Intel cpu's for him as it was easier to get them from the USA and then send to Greece.
I'm going to say it again, We are not your enemy.

Another guy brought up a point that I would like an answer for even though I think I know the answer.
Why is a X5550 gainestown three times the price of a i7-920 when they are the same damned cpu?
It's one line with both cpu's having dual QPI and the ones sold as i7-920'ss having the second QPI electronically disabled. If the same, why three times the price?
This is another problem you folks at intel have created.
Your pricing yourselves out of the market for any one that wants a high end dual socket system.
You wonder why people purchase ES chips.
The answer is above.
What normal person can afford to drop $2000-$3000 every year to keep up with the system changes.
I for damned sure can't anymore.
All I ever wanted was to try and help the next generation to lead healthier lives and the pursuit of that using Intel parts has pretty much bankrupted me.