Fao Nelly

Post by **Hammer** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:03 pm

This <a href="http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showth ... t=18032445" target="_blank">CPU</a> any use to you mate?

Post by **Nellyboy** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:16 am

Thanks for that Hammer, tempting it is mate. I got no more money for a couple of months now so will have to be a real bargain.

I was waiting for the Q9550 to drop in price.

Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:42 am

I'm looking to get a Q9550 aswell, want to replace my Xeon 3060 with a nice quad.

Post by **Nellyboy** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:31 pm

Looks like ebuyer have the E0 stepping ones which clock better.

Post by **Hammer** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 1:56 pm

Nellyboy wrote: Looks like ebuyer have the E0 stepping ones which clock better.

Not badly priced at Â£204.69inc vat.

Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:10 pm

That's a fair bit more than Scan at Â£166.51 admittedly they won't guarantee what stepping you'll get, but even the C1 stepping at Ebuyer is over Â£200.

For that sort of money I'd be tempted to get the equivalent Xeon chip as they're normally better chips and at only Â£204.90 on Scan seems a decent option (not sure if all xeon's are E0 stepping or some such)

Post by **Eagle** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:41 pm

I'd say whatever chip you get its probably a good idea NOT to step on it at all coz i'm sure it would break

Post by **Nellyboy** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 7:57 pm

Hmm, my server at work has twin xeons at 3.2 and my mac has twin xeons at 2.6. Wonder if they would nitice if I replaced our server with an amd barton xp2500 @ 1.8

Post by **Trig** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:09 pm

Most likely, you;d have to snap a few pins off so you'd have to be damned careful