This is not a review, just sharing some info. I bought this on Sunday and mounted it on my BX2. Anyway, I found no information on the batch number when I googled for it, so I'm posting my results here for reference. The package date is 02/12/2007.
The first surprising thing about this chip is that while it is a voltage hog, it runs cool. I'm currently maxed out on voltages on the BX2 @ 412x9 @ 3.71 Ghz orthos small ffts stable. There has been a lot of talk about the poor clocking capabilities of new conroes but I'm sure I could take this to 4.0 Ghz on water if I could feed it enough voltage. The AW9D-Max does 1.725v. on the vcore, so should give me some more headroom. If folks are intereted, I will post some scores.
Idle = 24-27
Load= 51-55 (orthos small ffts)
Room temp= 75f
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