So where would you buy your Mobile Barton?

[james__bean]

I bought my regular 2500 right when they came out with a 1.04 Asus A7N8X-DX. I haven't been able to get a stable FSB over 195 and I was going to just wait for a good overclocking A64 chip to come out before upgrading. Then I found a Leadtek Nforce 2 Deluxe Limited motherboard over the weekend for $65 refurbished. I've been wanting this motherboard for months since I hear it's a great overclocker and it has some cool features that I like. (2.0 CPU Voltage, adjustable chipset voltage, optical sound output, heatsinks on the mosfets, black PCB, etc.) Anyways, I've decided to go ahead and sell my current cpu/mobo and pick up a mobile barton. My real concern is if I should buy from newegg or maybe buy a guaranteed IQYHA stepping from excaliberPC. This is the chip they are selling right now. In the last few days I've read some unpleasent things about the AQYHA stepping from a few members here. I know this is all speculation but what would you do in my situation?

 

[RoD]

i have had a very good experience with newegg.

 

[RedDawg41]

I bought 2 from ewiz.com m2400 barton; IQYHA 0402, they may still have some, aways call. Excaliber has m2500 with the IQYHA stepping (0348) that may give pretty good results. Newegg has most of the m2400-2500-2600, however, it's the luck of the draw when it comes to getting a particular stepping (AQYHA or IQYHA).