Official Athlon 64 X2 preorder/instock thread...

[TankGuys]

There is a good change our first shipment of X2's will be headed our way tomorrow. It's not confirmed, but that's what I heard from a few of my connections. If that's true, we'll ship out a lot of our inital pre-orders within a few days.

Again, this isn't confirmed and I should know for sure tomorrow, but it's a very good possibility.

 

[Capt Caveman]

fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

 

[StyleMechanics]

crossing my fingers for my 4400! too bad i have to wait till july 1st for the AMD tech tour for the last of my parts...bummer

 

[imported_Starman]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

 

[jdogg707]

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

Is it bad when 1K is considered "a steal"?

 

[terroradagio]

Originally posted by: jdogg707

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

Is it bad when 1K is considered "a steal"?

Not when you can afford it.

 

[Dragon41673]

>=O( I want one of thos $10.00 Coupons

 

[imported_Starman]

Originally posted by: Dragon41673
>=O( I want one of thos $10.00 Coupons

Here you go:

Mwave Instant Discount Offer

...it's good for only 24 hours after you sign up; do it just before you make your purchase.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

Well, I got my 4400+ today, and it is running at 1.42 volts 2.6 ghz at 45c stable !! screw the 4800, I got a 5200+ or better !

 

[Romir]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Well, I got my 4400+ today, and it is running at 1.42 volts 2.6 ghz at 45c stable !! screw the 4800, I got a 5200+ or better !

Yeah, the price difference between the 4400+ and 4800+ is enough to buy a very high end water cooling setup or half a phase setup. Better cooling would most likely make up for the 100-200mhz higher ceiling in speed. But if you have the money and good cooling already.... the 4800+ is a mighty fine chip!

 

[imported_Starman]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

Well, I got my 4400+ today, and it is running at 1.42 volts 2.6 ghz at 45c stable !! screw the 4800, I got a 5200+ or better !

That's really sweet, but some 4800+ users have gotten over the 3Ghz mark

Seriously though, it's nice to hear. I won't be overclocking right away, but I'm glad to see these are some nice chips in general.

 

[Dragon41673]

OK...not to hijack the thread...but what is a Phase Setup? I've seen this reference a few times. Don't need to post it here as to totally hijack the thread so if you could PM me that's fine, thank you

 

[imported_Starman]

Originally posted by: Dragon41673
OK...not to hijack the thread...but what is a Phase Setup?

http://www.google.com

:beer:

 

[terroradagio]

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
fyi, Mwave has both the 4800+ and 4200+ retails availabel at $1050 and $570 respectively:
Mwave

Yes, I ordered my retail 4800+ today and will have it here tomorrow. Using the $10 Mwave coupon I got it down to $1,040 - w00t! What a steal!

Well, I got my 4400+ today, and it is running at 1.42 volts 2.6 ghz at 45c stable !! screw the 4800, I got a 5200+ or better !

That's really sweet, but some 4800+ users have gotten over the 3Ghz mark

Seriously though, it's nice to hear. I won't be overclocking right away, but I'm glad to see these are some nice chips in general.

Well, 2.4Ghz a CPU = 4.8Ghz.

So an overclocked 3.0Ghz X2 would be 6.0Ghz.

If you think in that respect.

 

[Markfw]

BTW, that 2.6 is not even the max, just a 10 minute OC on an XP90 and a low rpm fan ! But it has been stable for 2 hours.... Will take soe time to know the max OC.

 

[T2k]

Originally posted by: TankGuys
There is a good change our first shipment of X2's will be headed our way tomorrow. It's not confirmed, but that's what I heard from a few of my connections. If that's true, we'll ship out a lot of our inital pre-orders within a few days.

Again, this isn't confirmed and I should know for sure tomorrow, but it's a very good possibility.

Whohohooo... perhaps another shipment within a week, so I'll be one happy guy next weekend?

 

[xl80325]

Originally posted by: TankGuys
There is a good change our first shipment of X2's will be headed our way tomorrow. It's not confirmed, but that's what I heard from a few of my connections. If that's true, we'll ship out a lot of our inital pre-orders within a few days.

Again, this isn't confirmed and I should know for sure tomorrow, but it's a very good possibility.

Ok, I'll wait another week and maybe I will cancel my order from you and go for a oem one or 4200+ retail elsewhere.

 

[imported_Starman]

Originally posted by: xl80325

Ok, I'll wait another week and maybe I will cancel my order from you and go for a oem one or 4200+ retail elsewhere.

Mwave currently has the 4200+ retail in stock and can ship it tomorrow if you'd like

 

[xl80325]

Originally posted by: Starman

Originally posted by: xl80325

Ok, I'll wait another week and maybe I will cancel my order from you and go for a oem one or 4200+ retail elsewhere.

Mwave currently has the 4200+ retail in stock and can ship it tomorrow if you'd like

Yeah, I know that, but 1mb cache still makes me want to go for a 4400+. Anybody knows if there is much difference between 512k and 1M cache?

 

[imported_Starman]

Oh, ok...you're the one who brought up the 4200+ so I was just trying to be helpful. If you're in no rush and can spare the extra money then get the 4400+. The 1MB cache, while not vital, does help here and there (and more vs. less depending on the application). IMO, it's worth it to get the extra cache otherwise I'd be expecting a 4600+ tomorrow and not the 4800+

 

[fatty4ksu]

cache=small diff in games.

None in encoding.

 

[composer777]

I just ordered a 4800+ overnight through mwave and canceled my order with Monarch. I'm assuming that all you need to do in order to cancel an order with Monarch is send an email with the order number in the subject line asking them to cancel, but they weren't very clear on their website. I figured that since monarch hasn't been reliable with their ETA's and mwave has given me good service in the past, that it makes sense to cancel with Monarch. Monarch is usually a good company, but I've been waiting for this chip patiently since the 2nd of June.

BTW, has anyone gotten their tracking number from mwave yet?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: composer777
I'm assuming that all you need to do in order to cancel an order with Monarch is send an email with the order number in the subject line asking them to cancel, but they weren't very clear on their website.

That's what I did, and they canceled my order and refunded the CC (which I was kind of pissed that they charged it in the first place instead of just placing a hold until they shipped). They didn't send me any confirmation, but when I checked on the website in a day or so, it showed as canceled.

 

[ryanv12]

I wish newegg wasn't gouging. One of their facilities is in New Jersey, and I'm right across the river in Philadelphia. It's conveinent because I get FedEx Express Saver Packages literally the next day if I order early enough the day before. But I'm not in NJ, so I still don't get taxed. It's an ideal situation actually

 

[ProviaFan]

Mine shipped from CA; I'm not sure if they would have any X2s in their NJ warehouse...