The packing date is june of 2010, maybe there will be some good bloomfields still to come.

I am having a heck of time with temps, I have only tried a full run of LinX at 4.0ghz so far and temps were almost 60c at 1.184v. My other chips are much higher vid and temps were so much easier to control. Im not sure I like the low vid, reminds me of my q9650.