- Joined
- Feb 15, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver, Home of winter Olympics.
I'm building a new system, slowly, and last week I picked up a P4 3.0. I'd read Malaysian, 42+ week, pack date 01/19/04 were having some success (I know, one of these days I'll have to get off my knees) so I found an L346B283 - 01/19/04 and brought it home. OK, then I found another thread where someone's saying they're not having any particular success with similar batch codes but wait a minute, he's been trying a couple of "B's" and it's the "A's" that are hitting the 3.9's and 4's.
Damm, out the door, return the chip and find an L401A331. (I've really got to get off my knees). Now the funny thing is that while perusing the cpu database under uncleared 3.0c's I see a 3.674G overclock with a batch code of L346B283.
I always assumed these were batches of a 1000 giving each an individual number so either it's a hell of a coincidence that someone picked the same cpu up and had it clocked, and entered into the database within the week or I was holding a counterfeit.
Damm, out the door, return the chip and find an L401A331. (I've really got to get off my knees). Now the funny thing is that while perusing the cpu database under uncleared 3.0c's I see a 3.674G overclock with a batch code of L346B283.
I always assumed these were batches of a 1000 giving each an individual number so either it's a hell of a coincidence that someone picked the same cpu up and had it clocked, and entered into the database within the week or I was holding a counterfeit.
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