Quite awhile back I had ordered a eVGA 6600GT for some crazy cheap (at the time) price. Went OOS fast. Took quite awhile (almost a month if i recall correctly) but they still got the card to me. I did receive that reminder email with an ETA that they mention. Hope that helps you.

HPFanatic said:We're sorry, .

We're sorry to report that the merchandise listed below is not immediately available.

Though we expected to be able to send this product to you without delay, we have since found that we are unable to do so. Please accept our sincere apology for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We have placed this product from your order xxxxxxx on backorder, and will ship it automatically when it arrives at our fulfillment location. Please be aware that backorders will remain in our system for a maximum period of 30 days (from order date).

You may contact Customer Service at 1-800-634-3478 to inquire on the status or cancel the item(s). If your order has not been shipped within 15 days from the date of your order, a reminder email will be sent to you.

Please note that your credit card has not been charged for this product because you only pay for items as we ship them to you.

Thank you for shopping Micro Center Online. We hope you visit again soon.

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1-800-634-3478

Damn! Anyone know how Microcenter is with Backorders?

Just want to take one minute of time to ask you if you work for MicroCenter? What you are saying is horseshit. They are the worse retailer when it's down to honor they low ball price offers.

Just to proof you wrong, let's count how many score this deal. Do you want to bet it's will be close to none? Please post if anyone can get it. And no "new members" post please!

danielfeng said:HPFanatic said:We're sorry, .

We're sorry to report that the merchandise listed below is not immediately available.

Though we expected to be able to send this product to you without delay, we have since found that we are unable to do so. Please accept our sincere apology for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We have placed this product from your order xxxxxxx on backorder, and will ship it automatically when it arrives at our fulfillment location. Please be aware that backorders will remain in our system for a maximum period of 30 days (from order date).

You may contact Customer Service at 1-800-634-3478 to inquire on the status or cancel the item(s). If your order has not been shipped within 15 days from the date of your order, a reminder email will be sent to you.

Please note that your credit card has not been charged for this product because you only pay for items as we ship them to you.

Thank you for shopping Micro Center Online. We hope you visit again soon.

Micro Center Online Customer Service
1-800-634-3478

Damn! Anyone know how Microcenter is with Backorders?

Easy dude, Micro Center is good, last time I got a Canon 30D kit at a wrong price (about $250 or $300 less than what it should be), and they knew the price was wrong when I called to check the backorder status, but they said they would honored that price, and still shipped it to me. Even better, they also offered me 3 free gifts. What can I say? I just love Micro Center.

nicolaisnicer said:Just want to take one minute of time to ask you if you work for MicroCenter? What you are saying is horseshit. They are the worse retailer when it's down to honor they low ball price offers.

Just to proof you wrong, let's count how many score this deal. Do you want to bet it's will be close to none? Please post if anyone can get it. And no "new members" post please!


danielfeng said:HPFanatic said:We're sorry, .

We're sorry to report that the merchandise listed below is not immediately available.

Though we expected to be able to send this product to you without delay, we have since found that we are unable to do so. Please accept our sincere apology for any inconvenience this may have caused.

We have placed this product from your order xxxxxxx on backorder, and will ship it automatically when it arrives at our fulfillment location. Please be aware that backorders will remain in our system for a maximum period of 30 days (from order date).

You may contact Customer Service at 1-800-634-3478 to inquire on the status or cancel the item(s). If your order has not been shipped within 15 days from the date of your order, a reminder email will be sent to you.

Please note that your credit card has not been charged for this product because you only pay for items as we ship them to you.

Thank you for shopping Micro Center Online. We hope you visit again soon.

Micro Center Online Customer Service
1-800-634-3478

Damn! Anyone know how Microcenter is with Backorders?

Easy dude, Micro Center is good, last time I got a Canon 30D kit at a wrong price (about $250 or $300 less than what it should be), and they knew the price was wrong when I called to check the backorder status, but they said they would honored that price, and still shipped it to me. Even better, they also offered me 3 free gifts. What can I say? I just love Micro Center.

Micro Center works for us if you were lucky as most of us. The only thing you can argue is that Micro Center will charge shipping fee, but it won't kill a big deal, especially a price mistake.

I scored on this deal at the Cambridge, MA store. However, it was quite difficult. For some reason, the SKU on the ad is different than the one in stock. They checked things for about 30 minutes before giving me the CPU for that price. Of course, it turns out that I don't need it, so I'll be returning it.

dric said:FYI, update from Microcenter csr chat:

It looks like we have not received a shipment from Intel and it looks also that they informed to us they will not be sending another shipment due to the product is discontinued. We are currently trying to source this product elsewhere for you.

I see the product has been pulled from their website as well.bummer!

Why even bother. microcenter almost never has these cpu deals in stock.

i've been burned by their out of stockness like 5 times now.

Edit: what he said ^^^.

NKSK said:
E4600 replaces the E4500. It's running about $20 more than the E4500 but should come down in price to $130+/- soon. The only difference from a quick look at the specs is that E4600 packs 64MB for L1 cache and E4500 (and most of the E6xxx series) have 32MB L1 cache on the chip. I don't know if that is going to make a difference in performance.

You mean 32KB to 64KB. Not MB. I dont know of any chips with that L1 cache that would be that large.

I just got a ship notice from MicroCenter for the one I ordered. Took almost 2 weeks for them to ship it but got a good deal.

I hate microcenter.

I received the shipping notice at 12:41pm CST, just 10 minutes after I got an E2180 cpu from Newegg. I bought the E2180 two days ago because I thought microcenter would eventually cancel my order. I called microcenter before I made my purchase of E2180. They told me they had no idea when or whether my order would be fulfilled.

Now here is a dilemma: If I return the E2180 to Newegg, I have to paid 15% (~ $13.5) restocking fee + return shipping. Or I can cancel/refuse the delivery of the E4500 from microcenter. What should I do? Which one is more overclockable?