What is current retail stepping for i7-2600K?

[Idontcare]

Trying to find the current stepping for retail 2600K's...feeling like a google noob, everything I find that has a screenshot of the IHS shows it to be an ES.

Anyone know offhand what the stepping is for retail 2600k's?

 

[pm]

It's D2.

See:
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52214

Click "Ordering / sSpecs / Steppings"

Boxed Intel® Core™ i7-2600K Processor (8M Cache, 3.40 GHz) FC-LGA10
Socket: LGA1155
Stepping: D2
Step TDP: 95 Watts
Spec code: SR00C

* not a spokesperson for Intel Corp. *

 

[Idontcare]

LOL, thank you so much pm! I'm laughing because I had actually looked at that page, up and down, before making the thread and never saw the "Steppings" hyperlink on the left.

Well at least I was in the right place, google didn't fail me, my age did!

OK, so it is D2. Thank you very much.

 

[Diogenes2]

CPU-Z tells me my stepping is 7 and the revision is D2. ( 2600K )

 

[ilkhan]

Yup, D2.
Anybody else find it amazing that they went through 4 major revisions before launch and still managed to launch roughly on time?
Its like they knew what they were doing or something.

 

[Daemas]

how often do new steppings come out? Is it more of a "hey, we still need some of you guys who worked on this node to update the chips until a new line comes out" or is it more of a only fix broke stuff thing?

 

[IGemini]

how often do new steppings come out? Is it more of a "hey, we still need some of you guys who worked on this node to update the chips until a new line comes out" or is it more of a only fix broke stuff thing?

The real answer is somewhere between both. With newer processors (i.e. the past three generations) they tend to come out with 1-2 new steppings within a few months after initial launch. Sometimes they'll wrap it in a new product line though, like with Core 2 processors 1333Mhz bump. Each revision does correct errors in the core though most of us will likely be none the wiser.