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    i7 940xm price jump????

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Hijakd, Nov 8, 2010.

  1. Hijakd

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    hey guys I was just doing a wishfull browse on ebay and saw that the price of a i7 940xm cpu has jumped up to over $1000? last week I looked and they were down around the 500 mark.......whats going on?
     
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    Probably means all the ES 940XM have been sold for now leaving the OEM's which sell for +$1000
     
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    whats the difrance between ES and OEM
    is ES just an Open Box wich is what Intell sels to Companys so it doenst come with a OEM intell warranty question like what i woudl get when i used to build my own desktops ?

    and then OEM comes with full Intel warrantys and all ?
     
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    ahhhh crap....so will there be more ES copy's made or will we all just have to wait for the prices for these OEM versions to drop now?
     
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    ES = Engineering sample and is technically illegal to sell (although up to this point Intel has not pursued any litigation). It's the 'beta' versions of the chips and sometimes there are problems (quite a lot actually). Some don't have thermal restrictions set, or the stability is bad, or a myriad of other things that Intel wanted to test. But that doesn't mean it's unusable for what you want. You kinda get what you pay for. Also, you have no idea what they were used for previously - they are TEST cpus after all. . .

    Also, don't be fooled by the 'QS' which is just a marketing term for the last produced ES version before release. It's still an ES and could still have issues.

    BUT even after all the disclaimers and warnings you CAN find ES chips that run fine (near to exactly like OEM retail). It's kinda a crap shoot.
     
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    No more ES are made after release. A very finite supply.
     
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    is it me or is laptop monkey labeling the 940xm as 12m Cache on the title but lists 8mb cache on the Ad and the Cpu-z.
     
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    His listing does say 12m but the description says 8m. I think it's an honest mistake since the previous generation did have 12m (C2Q 9xxx Extreme). I wouldn't worry about it much. Well, I guess it depends now that I think of it, since it's actually 8m of L3 and not L2.
     
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