How can you tell ahead of time if you are getting a cB0 stepping processor?

[Maximus1]

I'm looking to buy a 700E FCPGA processor to put on a Asus CUSL2. I want to run it at 933Mhz, and I see that most cB0 stepping processors of this speed are capable of hitting that. I know nothing is a guarantee, but I was wondering how good my chances are of hitting that. Onvia has a good price on them and also the coupon and pointclick, so I was looking to buy there. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[konichiwa]

From OnVia, you can't know. They ship from warehouses across the US so they can't tell you whether you'll be getting a cB0 or not. However, if you check the threads about this in Hot Deals you will see which warehouses are shipping mostly cB0's.

If you call in your order and speak to a CS representative they may let you choose which warehouse your order is shipped from, in which case you'd want to tell them the warehouses that have been shipping the most cB0's.

Personally I just ordered one and it came today, I'm in Atlanta and it came from Miami, FL and it was a cB0. Also with OnVia if you don't get a cB0, they have a 30-day money back guarantee. So if it's not cB0 you can just RMA it and try again, if worst comes to worst.

 

[Maximus1]

Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it. BTW, do you know if most people are hitting 933 with the retail fan? If not, what are most people using? Thanks again.

 

[Windogg]

You can check the S-Spec#

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/sspec/p3p.htm

Windogg

 

[konichiwa]

I don't know. I'll let you know if I hit 933 with the retail fan. But I've got an Alpha coming in the mail which, if I can't hit it with the retail hs/fan I better be able to with that big-ass heatsink/fan combo.

 

[konichiwa]

Windogg:

Yeah that's true but you don't know the spec # until you get the processor if you're ordering from OnVia.

 

[Windogg]

Gotcha, that would suck getting cA2.

Windogg

 

[konichiwa]

Well yeah it would, but the good thing is that from OnVia you can just return it

 

[DLC]

Do what i did, ring them up and ask the s spec...
she said sl45y (p700 cb0) and i say... "You know that box in your hand your reading to me? i want that one now. " She goes why? but i didnt tell her it was a cb0 and that she could be selling it for more... heheh it was the last one too.. so she said ill put it aside for you... hows that for service??? luv it!!

so sweet, it came, and its a sl45y, a cb0 p3 700 flip chip... so ring em up mate!!!! u never know if u dont try.

 

[DLC]

Do what i did, ring them up and ask the s spec...
she said sl45y (p700 cb0) and i say... "You know that box in your hand your reading to me? i want that one now. " She goes why? but i didnt tell her it was a cb0 and that she could be selling it for more... heheh it was the last one too.. so she said ill put it aside for you... hows that for service??? luv it!!

so sweet, it came, and its a sl45y, a cb0 p3 700 flip chip... so ring em up mate!!!! u never know if u dont try.

 

[Raincity]

No The sales staff at Onvia will have no idea what your talking about. Just do the order over the phone and request that they drop ship it from Ingram micro in Pa. They seem to only be sending out cbo cosistantly of any of the distributors Onvia uses. If you get a ca2 rma it back. Onvia will rma it I just did one today.

Rain

 

[Maximus1]

Since I live in PA, if I order online does that mean they will definitely ship it from PA as well, since it is the closest distributor?

 

[konichiwa]

Not definately, but it's most probable.

 

[Raincity]

The have sh#tloads in stock in the PA warehouse acording to the Onvia csr so You have nothing to worry about.

Rain

 

[Maximus1]

So I could order it tomorrow morning online and use the 10% off from pointclick as well as the $25 coupon, and be pretty sure since I live in PA it should ship from that distributor (since it is also in PA). Seems to make sense to me, since I'm not sure you can use pointclick for phone orders (almost sure you can't).