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Credit to eibgrad @ SD.
Did a search and did not see that it was posted here. Frys has the Q6600 back at $180 plus shipping. The last time it was this price was during the "Charlie Chip" special back in April though there is nothing on the site stating this is the G0 stepping this time.
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This is retail box w/ heatsink and fan plus 3 year warranty.
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"Latest G0 Stepping" - Thanks SliverOfFear.
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did anyone find out if Charlie is indeed the CEO of frys?
If you can, do an In-store Pickup and check the stepping at the store. If they try to give you a B3, you could always ask if they have any with the SLACR code on them. Sometimes they will ask the person in the cage to check the other boxes for one that has that code on it. Just remember, being a jerk about it won't get you anywhere 
Yeah, to make it easier on them- ask them to see if they could check for the stepping you want before they go to the cage instead of having them bring one to you and then maybe asking them to go back to ask for a different one.
fam said:...though there is nothing on the site stating this is the G0 stepping this time.They must've updated the website because the last bullet item now says "Latest G0 Stepping".
deshwasi said:did anyone find out if Charlie is indeed the CEO of frys?
This Charlie?
SliverOfFear said:fam said:...though there is nothing on the site stating this is the G0 stepping this time.They must've updated the website because the last bullet item now says "Latest G0 Stepping".
Thanks, updating the post now.
SliverOfFear said:fam said:...though there is nothing on the site stating this is the G0 stepping this time.They must've updated the website because the last bullet item now says "Latest G0 Stepping".
They must have been watching this thread and fixed it 
I added this to my machine back in April during the last sale.
A couple of things to know... this runs about 10 degrees hotter than the dual core. This only matters when considering how quiet you want the machine. The stock Intel cpu fan runs faster and generates more noise. This may not matter to most folks.
For most operations, people will not notice a difference, but if you do a lot of video rendering this is twice as fast. It's well worth it if you do a lot of computationally intensive work (photoshop, video rendering, any kind of multimedia rendering). I don't think it would have much effect on games.
Overall, it's a very nice CPU.
This is still an amazing CPU. Mine handles everything I have thrown at it and it isn't even overclocked. Almost all of them will do 1333 on air, with 8 megs of cache makes them still a very good choice.
tkrotchko said:I added this to my machine back in April during the last sale.
A couple of things to know... this runs about 10 degrees hotter than the dual core. This only matters when considering how quiet you want the machine. The stock Intel cpu fan runs faster and generates more noise. This may not matter to most folks.
For most operations, people will not notice a difference, but if you do a lot of video rendering this is twice as fast. It's well worth it if you do a lot of computationally intensive work (photoshop, video rendering, any kind of multimedia rendering). I don't think it would have much effect on games.
Overall, it's a very nice CPU.
I agree...from the benchmarks I've seen, this quad is much faster at video encoding, etc than a dual core (e.g., E8400); however, as you pointed out, a fast dual core (e.g., E8400) is faster at gaming since it's clocked higher and games are not coded yet to fully take advantage of 4 cores.
clearanceman said:This is still an amazing CPU. Mine handles everything I have thrown at it and it isn't even overclocked. Almost all of them will do 1333 on air, with 8 megs of cache makes them still a very good choice.
1333 makes this chip run at 3.0GHz. Sweet quad-core speed.
EDIT: And it is currently in stock
If I didn't know Nehalem beats this by 40% clock for clock....I might actually pick this up.
Sigh....only 10 more months 
I got one of these in the April Fry's deal as well - and then paired it with one of the cheap $20 Zalman 9700's from the Anniversary sale. Overclocks OK, but not as well as some have reported. Mine will go to 3.4 (either 378 x 9 or 426 x 8), but gets pretty hot at full load - high 60s. I'd say these are still a decent deal, but the newer 45 nm quads are getting cost competitive, run cooler and clock faster.
opathal said:If I didn't know Nehalem beats this by 40% clock for clock....I might actually pick this up.
Sigh....only 10 more months
But a brand new Nahalem rig won't be 40% more cost-effective than this, providing you already have a LGA775 platform that supports C2D/Q right now. Intel has gone thru generations of northbridge development effort to reach today's maturity level, and I doubt they will perfect it the first time with the new architecture. This includes the expected chaos from drivers/softwares. I'll refrain myself from being an early adopter, so it'll be more like 20 months from now (i.e. by the time all the revision comes up)..
pretty amazing that this chip has held its price for over a year
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