Q6600 "Guaranteed overclock" editions!

[DougMcDonald]

I think the concept is actually pretty decent.

I am annoyed that i can't hit the levels i should be able to on my E6600 and this kind of no quibble return policy does offer that piece of mind (albeit at inflated costs)

I do wonder what they do with the top rated ones that get returned though, sincerely hope they don't end up on the next step down lol!

[Saracen]

.... They obviously reduced it due to the thread on OCUk forums... if you'd read it you'd know that... there was an uproar of negative feedback and they chandeg it sharpish, even the MD came and posted. No idea why you're being so defensive of them... honourable I suppose, albeit misguided.

It's not misguided at all, and I'm not defending them. I'm trying to present an alternative viewpoint, which includes pointing out that much of the outraged comment is supposition, but presented as fact or certainty. Many people are looking at what they did, and inferring why they did it. That inference might be correct .... but it might not.

If you mean the thread on OcUK, no, I didn't read it. I'm interested in what goes on here, not what they do there. But whatever the uproar, you still don't know why it was changed. Even if their MD publicly posted that that was the reason, you STILL don't know that it was. It could be that Intel objected (though I very much doubt it), or that it was other factors (like Scan's offer), but that OcUK weren't going to publicly say that, so gave an excuse. Other than those in OcUK actually making the decisions, nobody knows why they did it. It certainly might have been the uproar. It also might have been Scan's reaction. Most likely, it was a combination of several factors, perhaps including that it wasn't actually selling. Who knows?

[morda8]

whats the actual point of this sale?q6600 for £116 will be granteed to overclock (3.4 ghz) and work