Any chance for B3 Stepping

superfrog 30-07-2008, 07:13 AM

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I was wondering, if i go out to galaxy today for Q6600, is there a chance that i might get an old B3 Stepping instead of the newer G0 ??

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ali.tayyab

why would u want an older stepping???
anyways if u do want one, ask them to look for the older S-Spec mode (it think it was slum or slu9m). u can use intel's processor finder to check this out!

mave_3

the older stepping doesnt overclock that well.....
and it reall is not up to the mark.!!!!!

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deltree

thats wat i was wondering, these days the trend is thermal cieling increases and overclockability also increases due to the maturity of fab process and intel's own experience with a certain processor....thus thereby a later stepping is really a good thing in terms of overclocking....

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superfrog

Guys i dont want the B3 stepping, why the heck would i want one, all i was asking if there is a possibility that Intel is still crunching out B3 stepping Q6600 that i might stumble upon. sorry for any confusion

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Micrographics

i dont think the older ones are available anymore
i bought 2 quad cores yesterday and they are the new ones

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deltree

what did thg used for the 5.1 run btw?

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superfrog

it was this same Q6600, with Liquid Nitrogen.

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