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Anyone purchased Q9550 E0 stepping via OCUK?

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Chaps,

Just sent a webnote to OCUK, in regards to a query regarding if I purchased Q9550 at present, would it be the E0 stepping.

The reponse was "We can not gurentee that any of our processers are EO stepping" :confused: I know they want to clear backlog of C1....

Any customers on here recieved a E0 stepping as of late through OCUK? Silly thing is I why risk it.

Cheers

Parallax
 
Chaps,

Just sent a webnote to OCUK, in regards to a query regarding if I purchased Q9550 at present, would it be the E0 stepping.

The reponse was "We can not gurentee that any of our processers are EO stepping" :confused: I know they want to clear backlog of C1....

Any customers on here recieved a E0 stepping as of late through OCUK? Silly thing is I why risk it.

Cheers

Parallax

That was the same reply I got to a webnote I sent to them almost 4 weeks ago, so just went and bought a C1 (which is sitting @ 4.0GHz with 1.325v); it is hard to see how the E0 will o/c that much more than a C1....
 
That was the same reply I got to a webnote I sent to them almost 4 weeks ago, so just went and bought a C1 (which is sitting @ 4.0GHz with 1.325v); it is hard to see how the E0 will o/c that much more than a C1....

The point is in general though. Okay you got lucky and have a C1 which needs little volts to get 4Ghz.

The theory goes like this. Say only 10% of C1 are capable of 4Ghz and 50% of E0 will do 4Ghz. For the same price which would you rather buy?

Btw I am NOT claiming that these are the stats but it would appear from people with E0 that they pretty much all overclock to 4Ghz and some even higher.
 
Its gonna be tough to find a mobo that can do higher than FSB 470 with a quad which would be needed to acheive higher than 4GHz on a 9550
 
Who cares about E0. I got 3.8Ghz comfortably on air with my 9550. The longer you wait the closer you will come to i7 territory and then you will all be waiting for better versions of that. Just commit, you wont be disappointed!
 
Who cares about E0. I got 3.8Ghz comfortably on air with my 9550. The longer you wait the closer you will come to i7 territory and then you will all be waiting for better versions of that. Just commit, you wont be disappointed!

I care about them if it's right that they are more energy efficient.
 
How much more?

Not sure, but I'd say it will be enough with the possibility that I'm going to have an online UPS running as well, not only that but I'd be happier with less volts going through my chip.

Just to put things into perspective, it's not some far off product we're talking about, but something that has already shipped and doesn't cost any extra.

People can call me mad for trying to get my hands on one, but I've already emailed a couple of places, and will be mailing more this weekend. If I have no luck then I'll settle for C1, but not to at least try and obtain a E0 when it's out there is madness in my opinion.
 
Not sure, but I'd say it will be enough with the possibility that I'm going to have an online UPS running as well, not only that but I'd be happier with less volts going through my chip.

Just to put things into perspective, it's not some far off product we're talking about, but something that has already shipped and doesn't cost any extra.

People can call me mad for trying to get my hands on one, but I've already emailed a couple of places, and will be mailing more this weekend. If I have no luck then I'll settle for C1, but not to at least try and obtain a E0 when it's out there is madness in my opinion.

Have a look Here
 
Not sure, but I'd say it will be enough with the possibility that I'm going to have an online UPS running as well, not only that but I'd be happier with less volts going through my chip.

Just to put things into perspective, it's not some far off product we're talking about, but something that has already shipped and doesn't cost any extra.

People can call me mad for trying to get my hands on one, but I've already emailed a couple of places, and will be mailing more this weekend. If I have no luck then I'll settle for C1, but not to at least try and obtain a E0 when it's out there is madness in my opinion.

C1 is still an excellent chip.
 
Have a look Here

Thanks for the link, this will be my first build for nearly ten years, so I found it hard to refine anything from that, plus it was sixty-two pages long and I wasn't sure if the most relevant info was at the start or the end.

Is it basically saying E0 stepping is worse or not worth the hassle? If so that's fine, I'm not the champion of E0 stepping, it would just seem logical to go for a revised chip if available at no extra cost, if that's not the case I'll go for C1 no problem.

CaptainRAVE said:
C1 is still an excellent chip.

That's beside the point, I'm not trying to argue about this and a lot is based on my assumptions that a revised chip will at least have a chance of being a better clocker and would certainly not be any worse than it's predecessor.
 
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