E8400 is sold out everywhere???

zipzoomfly has them for ~$240 as well as Mwave.

The only place that was clsoe to the advertised $183 was Microcenter at $189, but they are now $199. If you have a Microcenter locally, try there.
 
People have been selling unopened retail chips for $200 shipped via the forums here and elsewhere, if you can't find a store with a reasonable price.
 
The Fry's by me has them for $243.68.

I've been there twice to get one and walked out. I just can't pay that much for something that should be $190 MAX. (Yes I've had economics, know about supply v demand and understand why the price is sky high).

Buy.com has them for $225.99, but they are out of stock. With a $10 off coupon that's only $215.99, I might order one.

Prices should/might come down when the 45nm quads come out.
 
DirtyDrummer said:
The Fry's by me has them for $243.68.

I've been there twice to get one and walked out. I just can't pay that much for something that should be $190 MAX. (Yes I've had economics, know about supply v demand and understand why the price is sky high).

Buy.com has them for $225.99, but they are out of stock. With a $10 off coupon that's only $215.99, I might order one.
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where do you get a 10 off coupon?
 
I got mine from newegg, got really lucky, they had them in stock for less then a hour when
I got mine and then they were all gone. It cost $239.99 even at newegg, but after putting it in
despite the price markup I think it was worth every penny. I have mine running at 3.6Ghz
and I only had to change the FSB, took 2 seconds, and runs very stable. Tempted to take
it to 4.0Ghz but i have no experience overclocking processor. To tell the truth this is my first
Intel processor since a Celeron 366Mhz. Wow that was a long time ago.

If anyone cares. Strange thing though was core temp said my temps were 43C idle, and then
52C load, but the ASUS probe utility said 34C idle, 38C load. I check and recheck my Zalman 9700,
and it had a very n ice fit with just the right amount of thermal compound. My case has 3 x 120MM
fans on high too, so i don;t believe any of the temp readouts. But it runs stable so i happy.

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Pretty much all current motherboards and temperature monitoring programs give strange temperatures with the E8xxx series. It should be fixed in later BIOS revisions.
 
Something strange going on with this launch for sure. Waiting for a possibly higher-binned 8500 myself.
 
AndyM said:
Something strange going on with this launch for sure. Waiting for a possibly higher-binned 8500 myself.
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Ding ding! Me too. That extra .5 multi is where it's at. 4.0 Ghz (E8400) is just not enough of a step up from my E6600...
 
Yeah, these 8400's seem more like engineering samples than retail chips. Early spin and binning, thats what happens...
 
I don't think there's anything wrong with them, so much as they've slightly altered the architecture. They're the first 45nm chips (not counting the XEs) to market, and the motherboard manufacturers are still playing catch-up... which is kind of sad, considering.
 
Brahmzy said:
Ding ding! Me too. That extra .5 multi is where it's at. 4.0 Ghz (E8400) is just not enough of a step up from my E6600...
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Lol do you know how much more that extra .5 multi will cost you? Just better off going quad (either Q6 or Q9) then.

JarJarBinks: Consider increasing the vcore to around 1.28 or 1.29. If you got a good chip, 4Ghz is easily reached. OTOH, if you got one of those early packdate's...you're probably looking at closer to 1.34-1.36. Well, it'll be pretty obvious once you try it haha.
 
Mav451 said:
Lol do you know how much more that extra .5 multi will cost you? Just better off going quad (either Q6 or Q9) then.

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It's not so much the multiplier, but the ability to OC farther. Over in AU where they had retail shipments a month or so ago, the 8500's were apparently getting on average ~200mhz higher stable OC's than the 8400's on less volts. That is worth it to me (I like lots of overkill speed :D)
 
AndyM said:
It's not so much the multiplier, but the ability to OC farther. Over in AU where they had retail shipments a month or so ago, the 8500's were apparently getting on average ~200mhz higher stable OC's than the 8400's on less volts. That is worth it to me (I like lots of overkill speed :D)
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I'm hoping to manage ~4Ghz on a X3220 and make you all look silly. ;)
 
i posted this in another thread and a responder said that cyberpower pc was being dishonest when they told me that intel has stopped shipping these chips till the middle of april and cancelled my order, well now im glad ive allready threw down the money to get one at mwave before they disapeared
 
mwave.com have them in stock at this time. Ordered mine thursday, 02/14/08. got it today. Looks like a week 48, batch# Q748R219. waiting on mobo/heatsink/ddr2 1066 modules to get in. :)

get them while you can. :D
 
I tell you... I'm mad! :mad:

I've been wondering wether I should get one or not. And I finally pulled the trigger. But at $246.80 from ZZF, I am paying for it through the nose.
This morning it was selling for $242 smackers on ZZF, and $229 on Mwave (without shipping).
This evening Mwave went from $229 to $239. It's outrageous!
Now watch my luck and see the prices drop this weekend!! :D

Oh well, at least I got terrific deals on an Antec 182 case, a 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066 kit, and an EVGA 8800 GTS 512 card.

I gues you can't always win!
 
AndyM said:
It's not so much the multiplier, but the ability to OC farther. Over in AU where they had retail shipments a month or so ago, the 8500's were apparently getting on average ~200mhz higher stable OC's than the 8400's on less volts. That is worth it to me (I like lots of overkill speed :D)
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Exactly. I have the money and this is my hobby. If I wanted a quad, I would have one. A quad wouldn't do squat for my PC usage. Pure RAW OCd MHz for me. With an E8500, I'll have a much better chance of getting around 4.4GHz without killing my proc in the process. No way with an E8400 on air. Too much VCore required.
 
NovaMan said:
mwave.com have them in stock at this time. Ordered mine thursday, 02/14/08. got it today. Looks like a week 48, batch# Q748R219. waiting on mobo/heatsink/ddr2 1066 modules to get in. :)

get them while you can. :D
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What the, an R batch? Let's see how these do :D
So far, I think everyone's had Q7XXA.

Bramhzy - I wonder why we still haven't seen e8500's available. I mean, the day I see it at Microcenter, I know they're in full production. I'm not sure what you're qualifying as "too much vcore". I've seen good e8400's take about 1.36-1.38 to get to 4.4Ghz. But we're talking cream of the crop here. The bad chips take that just to hit 4Ghz though. Say an e8500 only takes 1.296vcore to get to 4.4Ghz? That would be impressive - and maybe worth the money.
 
I am just going to wait for microcenter to get them in... i should of jumped on them last weekend when i had the chance.
 
My Father-in Law got one at MC last week.

Still hasn't installed it yet. He needs a video card and and he's looking at inexpsensive ones- he really only does video editing.
 
All of E8400 retail should oc'd to 4.4Ghz ( 489 fsb x multi 9 ) easy...Depending on your ram ability to scale high.

Imo, wolfdale will run the best paired with DDR3
 
centvalny said:
All of E8400 retail should oc'd to 4.4Ghz ( 489 fsb x multi 9 ) easy...Depending on your ram ability to scale high.

Imo, wolfdale will run the best paired with DDR3
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This is a very misleading statement. Some chips will scale far higher than others, and the ability to hit 489 FSB stable depends heavily on your motherboard as well as the chip in use.

DDR3 currently offers no noticeable performance increase over DDR2, so advocating it for much of anything makes very little sense to me considering the massive price increase over even high end DDR2. DDR2-1000 should be plenty for any E8400 OC.
 
I won't pay more than $180 for one of these... $215+ is encroaching on the X3210 quads which can hit 3.2 with ease on air.
 
huddy said:
I won't pay more than $180 for one of these... $215+ is encroaching on the X3210 quads which can hit 3.2 with ease on air.
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I have a feeling the e8400 will be in stock soon again for 215 shipped.

When is the x3210 comming out?
 
piotrgurin said:
I have a feeling the e8400 will be in stock soon again for 215 shipped.

When is the x3210 comming out?
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They're already out. He's referring to the lowest end Xeon branded quad. The Xeon X3210 is a 2.13Ghz stock part with an 8x multiplier. You can find them for around $240. A Q6600 OEM runs $250+ shipping, though, and it's 9x multiplier, so I'd go that route over an X3210.
 
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