Intel Q6700 Batch Numbers

[erikaxe]

I'm looking to buy a q6700 in the near future, and a few thoughts came to mind.

Is there any relation between certain retailers and batch numbers?

I assume it's fairly random, the procs are distributed to the stores and then sold to customers. However, some stores may have procs that are older or some stores may have more of certain batches.

Is there a difference between the various retailers such as newegg, zipzoomfly, mwave, chiefvalue, tigerdirect, etc?

My main concern is that I'll end up getting a q6700 with a vid of 1.325 or something, and wishing I bought a q6600 instead. lol

 

[shadowthor]

you can check it out at xtremesystems.org, I think they keep a track of batch numbers.

 

[dragonsprayer]

q6700 is a tired old dog and depending on the mobo you be way better off with the q9450 or just saving the cash and getting the q6600 = of coarse i only do oc systems

if your going to no oc the old dog can do new tricks like work in new mobos but stay away from nvidia chipsets with that old dog

dude! difference between retailers? what do you think newegg tests them and boxes them up and saves the good ones for their family and friends?

b3 steeping sucks get go stepping or better yet c1

vid! vid is bs! quit readin the latest fads - that's vids

6 months ago it was bottlenecking gpu's now it vids

 

[erikaxe]

yeah, i will probably just go with the q6600, save some dough. hopefully i can reach 3.6GHz though, i read that some of the procs in new batches have only hit 3.2GHz

 

[Preclude]

I agree, vids are the stupidest thing I have ever heard. You can volt most Q6600's to like 1.5 or even a little more. Trust me I've had a hand in quite a few. I'm Rather sure that a Q6700 can do the same.

 

[dragonsprayer]

yeah, i will probably just go with the q6600, save some dough. hopefully i can reach 3.6GHz though, i read that some of the procs in new batches have only hit 3.2GHz

the new bright blue boxed q6600 do seem inferior to the old pale blue q6600 go