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Still the cheapest Retail Box E2140 anywhere.

Nice, I was just looking for one of these. Cheapest I could find was at ZipZoomFly for $71.50.

Never dealt with Microcenter, do they ship fast?
 
If MicroCenter's shipping department is anything like their B&M stores, they'll be a pleasure to deal with.
 
I trust them but in a couple threads over at chubby wallet it was mentioned their 6 month rating at ResellerRatings is at 1.47/10! Then I noticed it was only 96 total reviews. I'd trust them but something to think about:

http://www.resellerratings.com...e/Micro_Center#reviews

edit: Actually, reading more of the reviews I don't know. Seems like the mail order is hit and miss with them if you run into trouble with your order. I'd risk it for a CPU but nothing I was leery about. Still, it's all based on 13 reviews (in last 6 months) so if you order from them and it goes okay maybe post a review 🙂.

Their website is junior league. For example, try to put the Epson R280 in your cart. Why do they even list it anymore?
 
Well, I just bit, so we'll see how it goes. Also Ordered the Blood Iron DFI mobo from Newegg and DDR1000 D9GMH RAM from Tankguys, hope it all comes in and in a short amount of time.

Wish me luck!!

Can't beat a new PC for under $265 shipped
 
That's HOT! MicroCenter is pretty good. I've ordered a few times and gotten stuff fast. Shipping also ends up really cheap if you get more than one item.
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
anybody know how well these o/c?
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With stock cooler, I do not know the specifics, but I have seen 3.0-3.2ghz (100%!) OCs with the E2140 with other coolers. A very solid chip. Reminds me of the old P4 1.6ghz socket 478 from years back that you could OC the nuts off of.

In for 1 myself, just got the Abit IP35-E from $60 newegg deal!
 
Until recently, I had pretty good experience ordering online and picking up in store, but lately it looks like out of stock has been a problem, and it has been 2 or 3 days before they acknowledge that the order is ready for pickup, which is not good if you are not picking up in store. Buying a motherboard-cpu combo and finding the cpu is out of stock kind of defeats the purpose.
 
Didnt the E2160 drops to $64 today? I know this is the E2140 - I was reading and thought I would get the E2160
 
Tom's hardware shows the non-overclocked E2140 to be comparable to an E4300 (see link here)

Any idea how well this one (overclocked to 3.0) stacks-up (say against the new E8200)?
If the performance difference is not that much, the price of the E2140 makes this a no-brainer.

Currently making do with a AMD 64 3500+ (single core)
 
Originally posted by: scaper
Tom's hardware shows the non-overclocked E2140 to be comparable to an E4300 (see link here)

Any idea how well this one (overclocked to 3.0) stacks-up (say against the new E8200)?
If the performance difference is not that much, the price of the E2140 makes this a no-brainer.

Currently making do with a AMD 64 3500+ (single core)
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There are some reviews that show the 1MB L2 cache chips do suffer pretty big penalties in games compared to their 2 and 4MB siblings at the same clock speeds. Up to 10-20% in some games I believe. Still, hard to beat the price and performance of these chips, especially considering you can get most of the performance of a $200+ CPU for well under $100. I put an E2140 in a rig I gave to my parents and its definitely no slouch running at a moderate OC of 2.8GHz at stock voltages.
 
Originally posted by: bob4432
anybody know how well these o/c?
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Very well. I've gone through a few (I think I've had three E2140 total) and they could all do 3.2GHz+. HOWEVER, it was highly dependant on the motherboard. Some motherboards are not optimized for 800MHz FSB chip overclocking, so those boards will artificially limit your overclock. Some workarounds are to do a BSEL mod, and suddenly the same CPU, motherboard and RAM combo has a few hundred MHz more overclock.
 
I'm deciding between a E2140 and E2160 --- my motherboard is Abit IP35-E -- I want to go for best bang for the buck. One problem I am having is I read E2160 drops to $64 on Jan. 20 - yet I dont see it be reflected. I was waiting for that.
 
Originally posted by: kidsafe
What's amusing is MicroCenter has this CPU cheaper than the E1200 for the time being...
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Yeah, and I bet people are still buying the E1200 "OMG it's the new dual core Celeron" <reminisces about 300A, whips out wallet>
 
I'm deciding between a E2140 and E2160
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One thing about buying a 2160 or a 2180 is that with them you have a higher multi with the ability to go lower for better overclockability.

I have a 2180 and on my IP 35-E I can go 10-9-8-7-6 etc on the multiplier.

Although I have seen many who can do 8X400 3.2g mine wont do it. But it will however run at 9X370 which is 3.33....😕
 
yup you need ram that will do 800mhz but thats pretty common now , actually every stick of ddr2 i have ever purchased will do 800mhz, even the pc4200 mushkin i got years ago.
 
Well, Microcenter just lost me as a potential customer. Took them 4 days (Since Sunday) to tell me that they are out of stock on these things. My mobo just arrived, RAM should be here by Friday....but no CPU. Their bad rep ratings should have steered me away anyway.

Oh well, I'll prolly just get the new Wolfdale anyway. Just sux that I have to wait another week before I get it.

I think I'll stick with Newegg.
 
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