q6600 @ microcenter

[Sketcher]

Picked mine up yesterday(Q6600) for $200 in Minnesota (St. Louis Park). Clerk said they had a couple hundred in stock.

Also grabbed a 150GB 10k Raptor X for $160
And a 100 spindle of CompUSA branded CD-R's for 7.99

 

[kalster]

can anyone confirm if the stores in the bay area still have these in stock, also is a 430W PSU enough to drive this?

 

[kimchee411]

Originally posted by: kalster
can anyone confirm if the stores in the bay area still have these in stock, also is a 430W PSU enough to drive this?

You could probably call the store to find out if they are in stock. Of course, there are some bastard CSRs out there who will lie and tell you there are a couple left just to reel you in.

430W is plenty for the CPU. It's not very power hungry - 95W. Of course if you have a couple 8800GTs then forget it. I'm running a Q6600, 2x2GB DDR2-800, 7800GT, 3 HDDs, and a burner on a 350W PSU just fine!

 

[Kirby64]

For those wondering, I was in microcenter this afternoon (Picking up my $70 P182 as instore pickup :thumbsup🙂 and saw atleast 5-6 Q6600s on display at the Houston, TX store. There were probably more, just only that many behind the locked case.

 

[miguel421]

each store should have gotten thier drop ship of 200 more as of monday. madison heights has 218 in stock as of tonight.



also have 2 e8400's 🙂 hehehe, customers returned saying they were defective, sent to intel and verified good, tested in the shop at the store for 24 hour burn in tests as perfect too. $150! wait, now there's only one... don't know how that happened.

 

[larciel]

Send me one and I'll ... love you.. lol

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

If I wasn't about to go out of town I'd offer to ship them to people for like $225 a pop or something. If there's any interest, maybe when I get back. I live about 10 mins from the Rockville location.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: miguel421
each store should have gotten thier drop ship of 200 more as of monday. madison heights has 218 in stock as of tonight.



also have 2 e8400's 🙂 hehehe, customers returned saying they were defective, sent to intel and verified good, tested in the shop at the store for 24 hour burn in tests as perfect too. $150! wait, now there's only one... don't know how that happened.

probably some cheats who returned them because the chips couldn't do 4GHz (or they were too noob to figure it out)

 

[newbiepcuser]

/ really don't know the motive behind what the sales associate told me, all I know is it really turned me off to that store and instead of them making good on their promo (even if it was at a loss) they lost a customer.

I use to work with some of those clowns in Tustin, Micro Center. Back then, everybody was on group or invidiual commission except the cashiers, customer service, techs and book store. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Next time ask for associates name, store number, store manager and the home office address. I remember one time, a customer caught a typo, he called a manager and he got $200.00 software for 40.00.
He called bait and switch.

 

[miguel421]

sadly that has happened. thankfully the management team at madison heights doesn't put up ith games being played by commissioned employees. either do it right or your gone. pride in customer service is what has actually pushed that store to it's 3rd "store of the year" title in a row. and if a customer catches a type of that nature, they're the first ones to take care of the customer and charge the difference back to the home office due to a misprint (even though mighigan law doesn't require them to).


as far as the e8400's coming back... pulled the CSR notes today. one dingbat tried an e8400 with an ECS 945 motherboard (no kidding no 1333mhz fsb and no 45nm support), the other swapped it out for a qx9650. and I FINALLY got my e8400 running today. had to clear the cmos AFTER a bios flash on the 680i lt to make it work 🙂 now the gemini II goes on and the fun begins.


btw do people actually BUY anything at the rockville store? I see shrink numbers that are just horrific there. a "bad" store is at .4% shrink. that store is at almost 3%

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

Originally posted by: miguel421
sadly that has happened. thankfully the management team at madison heights doesn't put up ith games being played by commissioned employees. either do it right or your gone. pride in customer service is what has actually pushed that store to it's 3rd "store of the year" title in a row. and if a customer catches a type of that nature, they're the first ones to take care of the customer and charge the difference back to the home office due to a misprint (even though mighigan law doesn't require them to).


as far as the e8400's coming back... pulled the CSR notes today. one dingbat tried an e8400 with an ECS 945 motherboard (no kidding no 1333mhz fsb and no 45nm support), the other swapped it out for a qx9650. and I FINALLY got my e8400 running today. had to clear the cmos AFTER a bios flash on the 680i lt to make it work 🙂 now the gemini II goes on and the fun begins.


btw do people actually BUY anything at the rockville store? I see shrink numbers that are just horrific there. a "bad" store is at .4% shrink. that store is at almost 3%

I dunno. Seems like a lot of window shoppers. Also really, really long waits at the cheesy "bar" for service, even though it seems there's hardly anyone there.

What is shrink rate?

 

[OfficeLinebacker]

n/m
The sales rep has to walk you up to the register if you're buying a CPU, have done that walk a few times.

From my limited observations, I get a strong impression that the supervisors are assholes. That factor alone can really drive shrink rates.

 

[oogabooga]

FWIW: I went to tustin microcenter, there was no wait at the bar thing, I just asked someone if they had the Q6600's, he said yes. They walked me to the front and I got the processor. He said they had a couple in stock.

They asked me if I wanted to get a new cooler or warranty plan with it, politely said no thanks and they didn't bug me about it again. I also picked up a few other things while i was there (2gb DDR2 800 RAM for a different build) and the whole thing was pretty easy.

 

[miguel421]

Originally posted by: OfficeLinebacker
n/m
The sales rep has to walk you up to the register if you're buying a CPU, have done that walk a few times.

From my limited observations, I get a strong impression that the supervisors are assholes. That factor alone can really drive shrink rates.

company policy is: if it's locked up it gets walked up. PERIOD.



bad is .40% they came close to 3.0%

with that said there's a whole new management crew in place arleady. and since my GM is the front runner for the GM job down there, I've already applied to go as the full time RSM or as an RSS. it's good to be one of the boss' favorite henchmen in the store.