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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ganzonomy, Jan 11, 2012.

  1. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    I'm thinking to buy a q9100 or q9200 for my NP8662 (for $200, why not?) I see Laptopmonkey list this and i'm drooling due to what it could do for my folding. Is he / she reliable?

    Jason
     
    ganzonomy, Jan 11, 2012
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  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    I just checked laptopmonkey's feedback, and all they sell looks to be ES/QS processors. There feedback is pretty good, only 1 neutral, no negative.
     
    Nick, Jan 11, 2012
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  3. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    other than the fact ya can't sell these public on NBR, what is the diff between ES and QS?
     
    ganzonomy, Jan 11, 2012
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Nick, Jan 11, 2012
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    QS is practically retail release, but it is pre-retail release. Our workplace gets QS chips everytime Intel launches a new platform. We got QS i5-750 and i7-860 for 1156 launch and QS i5/i7 SB chips before they came out.

    ES are Engineering Samples, are as they sound, using for testing. Certain features maybe disabled, it maybe missing temperature sensor.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jan 11, 2012
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  6. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

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    Some sellers use the terms interchangeably sometimes though, so be careful. You can look up the SSPEC to get an idea at what step of testing the CPU was made if you have the info on which is which. Those numbers/letters are pretty obscure, i.e. the SSPEC for an OEM i7-920xm is SLBLW, anything other than that will be QS or ES.
     
    tijo, Jan 11, 2012
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  7. ninja2000

    ninja2000 Mash IT

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    I have bought from laptopmonkey a couple of times with no problems.

    Both ES cpus and both worked perfectly
     
    ninja2000, Jan 12, 2012
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  8. upgrademonkey

    upgrademonkey Company Representative

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    Check again now, 0 neutral and 0 negative, 100% positive.

    we are working hard to keep it that way.( really really hard work)


    and we have most of the OEM version as well. :D
     
    upgrademonkey, Jan 13, 2012
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