newegg speacial

[cattb]

Newegg just came with a speacial, amd 940 am+ for 117, intel E7500 for 112, EVGA 9800GT for 70, after rebate..not bad prices. posted for anyone that has interest.
http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/June-0-2010/ITSale/images/LB_01.jpg

[Dragon]

I wonder if spell check comes with the package?

[DREDIOCK]

Your link takes you here



Hell, We can download and print the picture for free. 

[cattb]

I wonder if spell check comes with the package?

I don't use spellcheck, I fat finger the keyboard when I type.

[Tigger29]

Hrmm... you spelled "special" incorrectly on two occasions as "speacial"... kind of hard to blame that on fat fingers, as the letter "A" is not next to "E" or "C".  Aside from a couple of capitalization errors, that is the only spelling errors you made.

It's OK you can admit it... you just didn't know the correct spelling for "special" is all.  How about fixing your link though?

[Chalenge]

Wasnt hard to figure out:

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/June-0-2010/ITSale/

[Getback]

I saw where newegg had an Icore 5 clocked at 3.2 ghz on special. Had no idea they would be that fast.

[Krusty]

What does it mean, unlocked? I thought that was something you did if you wanted to void your warranty? I didn't think they came that way in the box, otherwise if it's official it was never "locked" to begin with! 

[Ghosth]

Krusty I think you'll find it has more to do with the manufacture "locking" certain pipelines. I've seen several chips that either shipped "unlocked" or could be unlocked by the average user.

As to why, well I'm no rocket scientists like some of these guys are.
I suspect its a bit like throttling down an engine. Run it wide open and it may overheat, may not perform as well, or it may go poof before the warranty is up.

[Spikes]

What does it mean, unlocked? I thought that was something you did if you wanted to void your warranty? I didn't think they came that way in the box, otherwise if it's official it was never "locked" to begin with! 

Such as X3's being able to be unlocked to X4's via bios in AMD ,I think.

[Chalenge]

What it means with the 'K' designation is that these cores can be overclocked without effecting other devices of your PC. It offers more multipliers and ratios to play with in going for more outrageous numbers if you will. Probably the serious overclockers will go straight for the i7 brand so the i5 may come down in price later on (no telling).

[cattb]

Hrmm... you spelled "special" incorrectly on two occasions as "speacial"... kind of hard to blame that on fat fingers, as the letter "A" is not next to "E" or "C".  Aside from a couple of capitalization errors, that is the only spelling errors you made.

It's OK you can admit it... you just didn't know the correct spelling for "special" is all.  How about fixing your link though?

I fat finger and spell stuff wrong all the time and I don't use spell check as a rule. I go back and correct it when I am picky and want it looking good. For the boards here I could care less. Yes I do put a "a" in special and it is spelled wrong, for some reason when I am typing fast I do that and havn't figured out why I do it yet. Don't care either.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Back in the old days most cpus were multiplier unlocked. That meant that you could push the cpu speed up by increasing the multiplier but having the front side bus speed remain standard. This helps overclocking a lot due to not requiring superfast ram and not affecting pci / pci-e bus speeds.

Then came cpu counterfitters that figured it was a good idea to relabel slower cpus and ship them overclocked to the clients or just relabel the part. After having much trouble with them Intel and AMD both started shipping multiplier locked cpus and while AMD started selling their 'black line' cpus that were multiplier free, Intel had their super expensive extreme edition cpus. This is the first time in ages that a 'consumer' level chip is offered unlocked by Intel.

[guncrasher]

I fat finger and spell stuff wrong all the time and I don't use spell check as a rule. I go back and correct it when I am picky and want it looking good. For the boards here I could care less. Yes I do put a "a" in special and it is spelled wrong, for some reason when I am typing fast I do that and havn't figured out why I do it yet. Don't care either.

right on, it really bothers me  how some people's only contribution to the threads is to point out that something was spelt wrong.  I got a spelting/grammar problem not because i am uneducated but just because that's how i am.  sometimes I have to read a sentence 3 or 4 times just to make sure I typed what i actually meant to say and sometimes still do it wrong. and some guy will totally trash what i said based on spelting/grammar instead of looking at context.  and then sometimes i write stuff that i go back and read and wonder, what the heck it means .

semp

[Denholm]

Hrmm... you spelled "special" incorrectly on two occasions as "speacial"... kind of hard to blame that on fat fingers, as the letter "A" is not next to "E" or "C".  Aside from a couple of capitalization errors, that is the only spelling errors you made.

It's OK you can admit it... you just didn't know the correct spelling for "special" is all.  How about fixing your link though?