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Yaa, B4 I go water cooling my new system lets see how it turns out in the next two weeks cuz I know that all of my parts will be trickling in for this long, and that is if non-of the three vendors aren't full-o-crap on their delivery times including Tiger.com.

Tigerdirect? Tell me you didn't order a Conroe from them...

NOW YER GETTIN ME INTO PANIK-MODE. WHY-WHY-WHAT'D I do wrong??? !!!

oops oh well at least AMD didnt buy all of tiger direct's stock of conroe chips then...

or did they..?

I guess I got lucky. I ordered my E6600 from Tiger Direct on 8/8, even though it said they were out of stock. It shipped on the 12th and I have it in my hands today. 8)

Now if I could just get my hands on a damn P5W-DH

Word!!

Go get'em dude!!

Well, just a little recap, then (incase there is anymore unforeseen panik moments).

My MOBO is coming from: NEWEGG.COM (I hope)

My 2GB of RAM are coming from: ZipZoomFly.COM (I hope)

My ATI AIW X1900 256 is coming from: BUY.COM (I hope)

My CPU & ATX Case are is coming from: TIGERDIRECT.COM (I hope), (I hope), (I hope), (I hope), (I hope), (I hope) (I hope) (I hope), (I hope).

Cool beans dude.
Well, just got the confirmation from UPS that it's been handed to their ground support unit. Woo-hoo!!! It should be here by Monday, Tuesday the latest!!! Yeah, baby.
"Ahh-hemmm." Pardon my childish behavior, Ladies & Gents...but it' been over two years since there were any significant upgrades happening under this household.

Woo-hoo!!!

im considering Gigabyte motherboards for a new E6300?

can you comment on their performance, ease of use on the bios, reliability?

i'd really appreciate the feed back. thank you.

Just my $.02 - I have been a faithful customer of Tigerdirect (and most of my family as well) for the past 4+ years. Never had an issue with any purchase from them.

I think the current disparity with reference to the Conroe chips comes from extreme market demand and unknown shipping conditions from manufacturing plants. I found it amazing they had the chips at all, as they are not a typical distributor for new releases - just overstock, clearance, or refurbished items.

As we see above - some did order from Tiger and got their parts as ordered. Others could not wait for the next shipment (not knocking on you, I fully understand wanting it "now" as big as the hype is).

That being said, I just wish Newegg would pick them up, as I am buying the rest of my system through them. I have found that when you want the highest quality items, Newegg comes through more often than Tiger - who deals (primarily) in overstock or refurbished items.
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And here is where I ordered my E6600 from -
www.magnum-pc.com
Currently sold out, but was purchased for $325 - OEM. $335 for Retail version was there as well.

That's good to here. I was biting my nails down to the Knubb after Phreejak, freaked me out.
"Knocking on wood" ...
Today I received the stuff I ordered tuesday from Newegg.com, Buy.com & ZipZoomFly.com. They were all faster than I had anticipated. The only thing now is the 6600 CPU or as some have said before, "PCU", & the ATX case from TigerDirect.com. Lets see how they do.

No, not a Typhoon, get the Sunami model. I hear it makes bigger waves on your credit card...

I had some local shop that I had asked a week ago for pricing & they called me today to tell me that they were going to give me a great! deal on the E660 with an ATI board @ $469/CPU & $359/ATI AIW X1900. I kept it professional, hung up, then laughed my butt off.

Yah, I was doin the math & I saved about $275USD compared to ordering all of my parts locally. It's the 1st time I've done this via the internet cuz I usually like to spend my dough at the local PC hardware distributo cuz if something goes wrong I'm within arms reach of choking someone. I still feel weird about purchasing over the Net though. But my confidence build up came frrom you guys here in this forum. Thanks go to you guys that post.

Yeah, I agree.

PS: I FINALLY GOT EVERYTHING my mobo, CPU, Vid card, MEMORY & ATX case. I'm having problems with it all now, but that'll be another thread)
It did turn into a bit of a hassle with TigerDirect, but they came through 200% by making it right. Here's how it goes...
TigerDirect's website had locked up during my credit card's verification & auth. process locking up my credit card. So I had to verbally call in my order. Someone screwed up the order & sent me an OEM E6600 instead of the Retail version, which is the packaged Intel Box with the CPU & the Intel provided cooler (for those who need to distinguish this).
On top of that no fan was included with the OEM version. It took some speaking to a regular rep, then her supervisor, who turned out to be a very outstanding & understanding individual. They quickly rectified the situation by sending me the Cooler Next Day Air. They sent me the ThermalTake Silent-775 Kooler. This, I think, is waaaay better than the stock cooler Intel would've provided. On top of this they refunded me my shipping costs for the processor which in itself was about $25USD
Keep in mind, that because of some screw up on their end the Retail version on their site is going for $399, but they didn't charge me a knickel more $372USD. The lesson to all this is that TigerDirect is not living up to their bad reputation which I read about, heard about & even saw some warnings in the nearby Indian Reservation's smoke signals.
They've got a loyal customer here...(I think). Lets see if what I ordered works. I now have a problem with all of this.