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Get a Q9550 now or wait and get the E0 Q9550

Well, I've just bought a Q9550 which should be arriving today - and spotted this.

I'll be really, really lucky if I do actually get an E0 stepping, but sounds unlikely.

Is there any other differences with this stepping other than suspected better overclockability? I don't intend to push mine too much to be honest but looking for a reasonable overclock, preferably at stock volts or a fraction higher.

Getting an asus P5Q Deluxe with it too. :D
 
Just received my Q9550 and its a pretty recent (pack date 28/7/08) chip but its a SLAWQ model - so no E0 in as yet it would seem.
 
I'll be joining you in waiting for the new stepping to be confirmed as in stock as well. I've been putting this new build back time after time in order to wait for something better in one department or more. Hopefully this new stepping comes in before it's too close to Nahalem time and I'm tempted to wait again. Raaaah! It will be good to see what results people are getting with the normal stepping though.
 
fizzy said:
Just received my Q9550 and its a pretty recent (pack date 28/7/08) chip but its a SLAWQ model - so no E0 in as yet it would seem.
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SLB8V (E0) will not be released until 22nd August 2008, ie. Friday of this week....so I suppose it will take a bit of time to fed through, but worth the wait I reckon.
 
I'm planning to order around the 15th of Sep (Need the parts to arrive around the 20th-22nd)... Let's hope it's in stock by then ^^
 
Well in the end I decided not to wait a few more weeks and got my Q9550 last Friday. I have to say I am really impressed with it and I can not see the point of overclocking it for me at the moment, perhaps next year I may OC it a little but no more then 3.2GHz. As I find every thing runs really great on it and I am very pleased with it.

It’s so much better than my old X2 4800+

The date on the intel packaging was 08/08/08 so it had not been on the shelf long, I have to admit I did not buy it from Overclockers.
 
if it was me i would wait for the new stepping as normaly things getter better after they have been feild tested and Intel obviously belives E0 is better
 
it's slightly different when the next best thing is released in a matter of days however, from an overclockers perspective anyway.
 
marscay said:
it's slightly different when the next best thing is released in a matter of days however, from an overclockers perspective anyway.
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Definitely, but most things are always "a couple of days" away. Just look at the E0 stepping on the 9550, or the A01 revision for the Dell 2408! Its been weeks and weeks now. It just isn't worth waiting most of the time.
 
After coming to the "there's always something new to wait for" conclusion last month, I've set my eyes on an E0 Q9550. Once that's out, I buy. Then the next buy will be once the price of Nehalem/i7 comes down.

I've webnoted OcUK this afternoon to ask if/when they'll have guaranteed E0 stepping Q9550s. I'm not willing to buy unless I can guarantee E0. Hopefully OcUK will step up like they did with the Q6600. If not I'll have to buy from a competitor who does :(
 
Well, on stock settings and with the retail cooler I used OCCTA (?) to stress the cpu and the 4th core seems to get the hottest, and reached 80+ within around 10 mins.

The stock cooler is barely coping by the looks of it, which is not really surprising considering the relatively small/low profile retail cooler. I guess they will probably be using the same one with the E0 stepping so if it does run cooler it probably won't be that noticeable unless you have decent cooling.

It was probably better for me to get a non-e0 stepping though thinking about it as there's a lot of talk on needing a bios update on motherboards. As this is my first intel system in quite some time I have no spare kit to use if I need another cpu installed first in order to flash the bios.

Once I get a better cooler hoping to get a reasonable overclock out of my C1 (say 3.2 - 3.4) to get the cores up to the same speed as an E8500 or E8600. I'll be happy with that. :D
 
People in the US and Canada reporting that they are available, though I haven't heard anything over here yet. I hope OcUK will give us an idea as to whether they are going to sell guaranteed E0 chips!
 
Stu said:
People in the US and Canada reporting that they are available, though I haven't heard anything over here yet. I hope OcUK will give us an idea as to whether they are going to sell guaranteed E0 chips!
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Unlikely. They won't even know if their new stock is the new E0 version
 
fizzy said:
It was probably better for me to get a non-e0 stepping though thinking about it as there's a lot of talk on needing a bios update on motherboards. As this is my first intel system in quite some time I have no spare kit to use if I need another cpu installed first in order to flash the bios.
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This was another reason why I did not wait for the E0 stepping, as my bios needed to be updated for the E0 stepping and my old/spare kit is AMD.
 
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