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Smooth... well, let's hope so. Some items are still labeled 3-5 days, and the GPU/CPU have gone out of stock without known delivery time. I sure hope that's because of my order that they've gone out of stock, otherwise I'll be waiting until well into 2010 for this. And since I already paid, that's not going to be an option - I am so going to be on the phone if I don't get word this week.

The Vapor-X cards run cooler and quieter than the 'stock' cards. That's important. :)

There's a reason I chose to pay up €30 more ;). Also, it has a higher clock speed than the standard edition.

congrats! looks like a system that you will enjoy for many many years... !

Mine just shipped yesterday , and its 4 days ahead of schedule from cyberpowerpc.


hope the ssd drive from intel will have updated firmware already installed.

hope the ssd drive from intel will have updated firmware already installed.

Same here, that would make things quite a bit easier.
And many many years is what it's supposed to last for. Well, maybe a bigger SSD once the things get cheaper ;)


Looks like the memory I ordered is now in stock... means everything should've been in stock at some point since my order. Unless something's gone horribly wrong on their end, like no delivery on CPUs or something like that. Gah, the waiting for the dispatching email is horrible :|

Ah, maybe just a friendly inquiring phone call tomorrow if I still haven't got news by then...

Ah, maybe just a friendly inquiring phone call tomorrow if I still haven't got news by then...

And so I called.

CPU: Apparently it never actually has been in stock yet. It's on the list, but they haven't sold any yet. Delivery date unknown...
GPU: Yep, sold right between ordering and payment. So I'll be waiting for that one as well. It's a hard one to come by, especially just before Christmas. But it's suddenly appeared in stock before, they'll have it before 2010 I reckon (or hope).

The CPU is the most worrying bit though, if they've never actually had it yet...

New Intel chips (930, 960...) are due early January from all reports. :|

New Intel chips (930, 960...) are due early January from all reports. :|

Bummer. Well, I'll be off work until the 10th, so maybe if I'm lucky I can get some time in during holidays :?

Update:

The GPU is finally going to be in stock in two days. Yay.

The 960 processor is erm... an unknown still. Early January is past, yet still noone knows anything about an actual release of the things.

I've done some calculating, and it would seem that the 950 is actually slightly more cost-efficient (MHz/€), though it doesn't differ much. Let's call them equal. The most important thing is of course that it actually exists.


Perhaps I should 'downgrade' the 166MHz and get my system up and running next week.

Thoughts?

166Mhz ain't going to change your life that's for sure
3.2Ghz / 3.06Ghz = about 4% difference
from hardware.fr : http://www.hardware.fr/articles/778-14/comparatif-geant-131-processeurs-intel-amd.html
i7-960 perf index : 183.4
i7-950 perf index : 177.9

183.4/177.9 = about 3% difference ... while keeping in mind that the game's test were done in lower detail that you will play yourself
so this probably means a lower than 3% overall difference for your usage I'll say ...


up to you 8)

Yeah, sod it. If you need that 3% that badly, a 5% boost to your BCLK isn't going to require any other tweaking. ;)

And apperently those i7's overclock pretty well...