what do you think about ES chips?

[mutz]

nvm.

t canceled.

 

[VirtualLarry]

ES chips are generally inferior to retail chips. I wouldn't be interested in an ES myself.

 

[mutz]

almost bought two from e-bay few weeks back,
it said nothing related to them being ES's,
though,

the price was half...,
realized it only later on,
luckily it didn't eventually work out.

 

[Ika]

ES chips are generally inferior to retail chips. I wouldn't be interested in an ES myself.

I thought ESes were usually cherry-picked, for use in reviews. They might, however, have a few unironed out bugs or something (not too sure on the details of this).

 

[mutz]

some are saying this and others the other,
there's a nice article pointing out some issues with the CORE 2 ES's,
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=407

it's possible that later chips are the same,
suffering from all sorts of bugs, early stepping etc.

 

[videogames101]

ES's could be earlier chips, or early new chips, or quite standard, you can't really know until you check.

 

[StrangerGuy]

It's going to cost 2 arms and 2 legs.

 

[lxskllr]

They're usually unlocked, aren't they? That can make overclocking a little more interesting if so.