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    New 6860 owner/heads up inside

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Mex1man, May 22, 2008.

  1. Mex1man

    Mex1man Newbie

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    Just glad to say I am getting my 6860fx this weekend so I can play Age of Conan. Also wanted to share this with you guys incase you were interested.

    Lookie Lookie
    This seller has 99.9% positive feedback, Penryn X9000 Core 2 Duo EXTREME 2.8 Ghz/6M/800/45nm CPU's for $499.99 with free shipping to the US. Pretty good deal I think,anyways check it out if you've been looking into getting one.
     
    Mex1man, May 22, 2008
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  2. Johnksss

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    yep, with his bogus copy of windows xp showing up big as day...lol

    now i could be wrong though.

    just being funny is all...i almost bought a chip from him though.
     
    Johnksss, May 23, 2008
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    seanno Notebook Consultant

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    I wonder what truck those fell off of..........Unbelievable price though for an extreem processor. I read somewhere that you can overclock those things well above 3.2 ghz. What do you have yours clocked at Johnksss ? I noticed you have that listed as your processor. How hot does it get when your playing games? Just curious.
    Seanno
     
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  4. intheknow17

    intheknow17 Notebook Guru

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    I noticed this chip is a chinese import. Is there a real difference between the U.S. version and the chinese? Should work the same right? Where did you get yours from Johnksss?
     
    intheknow17, May 23, 2008
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  5. JDELUNA

    JDELUNA Notebook Deity

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    Even though that one is a little cheaper, I went ahead and purchased this X9000 from this seller that is about 3 hours away from me. He mentions that all the other ones on EBAY are ES or Engineering Samples, where as this person I bought from sells actual units that OEM's receive.


    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270237827452&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017




    I should be getting mine tomorrow and will be testing it on my MSI GX600 and will see how well it overclocks :) God Bless :)
     
    JDELUNA, May 23, 2008
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  6. Johnksss

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    yep, mine shows es in cpuid

    got mine from that guy named rosco who is selling them for about 600.00
     
    Johnksss, May 23, 2008
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    el168 Notebook Consultant

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    I bought T9300 because it was cheaper and was afraid to buy ES chip
    Does anyone have x9000 chip installed? I want to compare
     
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    sure do and your looking at it in action..running like a champ! and so you see the 3dmarks in the sig with this chip.

    although i thought i was getting a regular chip as well and the only way you can tell it's a es is through software.

    i have a t9300 as well
     
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  9. Mex1man

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    Is there a difference between es and retail? or do they have identical specs?,if it is the same thing then I would probably go for this.
     
    Mex1man, May 23, 2008
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    well, gonna take another look at mine in a few so ill let you know..but from what i remember.... i have everything a regular x9000 is suppose to have, but it comes up as an es. and the guy said it wasn't suppose to be an es. so i gave it the major testing with in my time limits..if it was going to fail, i was going to have it do it then and not later. so i could ship it right back.
     
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