Its like buying lottery ticket. Some peep just bought one ticket and won millions, some bought a bunch and got nothing. Others buy lotto everyday and won small prices here and there, but haven't win a big ones.
In 2006 Sam jokingly commented that I use carpet to insulate the pot on my 7900GTX LN2 benching pic @ XS. Lol
Congrats Sam for long blazing trail of awesome benching
It seems like it...if SB-E stuck @ 53X average then BD that can scale with cold probly will be a short cut....
Time to dust off your venom pot and put the single stage back in the drawer...and hold on to your 58X/59X:)
The buyer should know that a "57X windows bootable 2600K" means cpu will either works @ 5705 max or 5750 max or 5799 max..not 5800.10Mhz and definitely not on air or regular water cooling.
No ifs or buts about it.
Most if not all of those 57X, 58X or 59X chips for sale already been posted here http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=16541 complete with batch and serial #s info.....or here http://hwbot.org/benchmark/cpu-z/rankings?start=14&hardwareTypeId=processor_2277#interval=50
So far less than 90 pieces considering probly more than 1 submission used the same cpu
If a 2600K can boot to windows @ 57X but not 58X then it definitely will work from 5705 to 5798Mhz 4C/4T with 5850 as a barrier Mhz....provided all necessary cooling and hardwares already set.
Some 57X chip can't bench 4C/8T HT on at that Mhz. range though