E6600 Now shipping!

dafloppyone · 4 Aug 2006 at 14:51

yes im into bios now....wierd looking bios though

Devious · 4 Aug 2006 at 14:53

dafloppyone said:
yes im into bios now....wierd looking bios though

yeah i didnt like it lol

Devious · 4 Aug 2006 at 14:54

crazyswede said:
My E6600 is now sitting beside me at work ... It keeps distracting me... it will not shut up... I want to go home... but too much work

ROFL!

tomos · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:01

well mine arrived this morning even tho i cancelled the order (pre ordered 4 overall i think.) prob is, another might be on its way today or tomorrow/monday for me.

ah well, i have one now and thats the important thing. will have to send the 2nd one back or refuse delivery

dafloppyone · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:02

we have lift off!

Count_Zero99uk · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:05

Count_Zero99uk said:
2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250g SATA-II (with 16mb cache)
Asus DVD-Rom
Asus DVD-RW
Antec P180 Case
Seasonic S12 600W PSU
Zalman Surround Sound Headphones
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.40GHz
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB GDDR3
Gigabyte GA 965P DQ6 Mobo
2 Gig Corsair Ram XMS2-6400C5
Zalman Aero Flower cooler.

could anyone comment on the potential for overclocking with this set-up.

Also is overclocking worth it for a games machine? (HAving never oc'd before)

dafloppyone · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:10

goddamit I need windows xp with service pack 2 to stop getting pci.sys errors argggghhHH!

suppose I could use linux for a while

or I could use this...

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp2_cd.htm
dfi apparently have this problem

Trickster63 · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:12

E6700 Retail rant again

lbratch said:
Any idea when we'll see the E6700 Retails in stock then?

On the 2nd August the website said they'd be in stock tomorrow (yesterday) but I assume that didn't happen...no mention of people waiting for them, everyone seems to have gone for the E6600.

Yep like you, Im holding out for this BUT seems that we are the smallest group waiting for our CPU's.

Perhaps Gibbo could give us a clue as to the possible date

(Apologies for the slightly off topic reference)

Gibbo · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:17

Trickster63 said:
Yep like you, Im holding out for this BUT seems that we are the smallest group waiting for our CPU's.

Perhaps Gibbo could give us a clue as to the possible date

(Apologies for the slightly off topic reference)

Hi there

Expect those sometime next week....

Or go for the OEM along with a Freezer 7 or something.

Devious · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:29

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Expect those sometime next week....

Or go for the OEM along with a Freezer 7 or something.

I'd go for the OEM, you may not get the 3 year warranty but how often do you hear of processors failing ? ...they are tough little things.

You may snap the pins off yourself etc but then you've voided the warranty then anyway.

Trickster63 · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:31

Snap off pins???

Devious said:
I'd go for the OEM, you may not get the 3 year warranty but how often do you hear of processors failing ? ...they are tough little things.

You may snap the pins off etc but then you've voided the warranty then anyway.

Not on these babies you cant!!!

Thanks for the reply Gibbo

dafloppyone · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:34

I still dont see how anyone could manage to snap the processor pins off...they are so easy to install....but then again I dont see how anyone could screw up their pc installation because the screws were too tight ;-)

Valor · 4 Aug 2006 at 15:55

Your order has been sent to our warehouse but not yet printed.
If your order remains in this state for several hours there may be an out of stock item delaying your orders progress.

STILL =(

Everything is green, guess I was just really really at the back of the queue. Or maybe because it was a weekday delivery so there isnt much point in picking it yet...

*fingers crossed for monday*

Val.

djay · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:06

dafloppyone said:
I still dont see how anyone could manage to snap the processor pins off...they are so easy to install....but then again I dont see how anyone could screw up their pc installation because the screws were too tight

LOL, exactly.....

Devious · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:14

Devious said:
I'd go for the OEM, you may not get the 3 year warranty but how often do you hear of processors failing ? ...they are tough little things.

You may snap the pins off yourself etc but then you've voided the warranty then anyway.

Trickster63 said:
Not on these babies you cant!!!

Thanks for the reply Gibbo

dafloppyone said:
I still dont see how anyone could manage to snap the processor pins off...they are so easy to install....but then again I dont see how anyone could screw up their pc installation because the screws were too tight

Try dropping one onto your floor then report back.

Ugiol · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:27

Am pretty annoyed, i rang today and they told me everything was fine and would be shipped today... time is running out.

Count_Zero99uk · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:51

Ugiol said:
Am pretty annoyed, i rang today and they told me everything was fine and would be shipped today... time is running out.

Did you pay for saturday delivery?

I did and sure enough my stuff has gone, they do seem to work saturdays so if you paid for next day mon/fri i would think they would sort it tommorow.

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Im just annoyed i had to go elsewhere for my headphones, yesterday all was well was awaiting packing, by end of day had reverted back to awaiting printing. Then this morning when i called to get ti changed to sat delivery get told my headphones out of stock

Ugiol · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:57

yeah next day mon-fri. But he said it would go today... :/. Said same about my network card but i had to cancel that.

Scratchy · 4 Aug 2006 at 16:59

I asked for saturday delivery also, ordered last night and had confirmation my stuff has left and will be with me tomorrow morning - £1146.50 well spent I hope

Talbs13 · 4 Aug 2006 at 17:02

Talbs13 said:
Make sure nothing is shorting it. Screws on anything like that.

Ah hA! I was right!