Quote Originally Posted by Retrolock View Post
Bought yesterday a dud, L042B243 2600K, thought it would do decent coz, was it Dumo? who got it to 58x? Mine wouldnt go past 5ghz, and it needed 1.52v to be vantage stable.

Now I have a new one, L108B066, but I don't believe in good batches anymore.
Same here, Dumo found a 58x awhile back so I went and bought one, boy, was I unlucky! It wasn't even stable at 5Ghz either, even up to 1.550v. That's why I gave up now, not binning CPU anymore.