Lucky me managed to get hold of brand new sealed Core i7 920 3845B260 D0 stepping batch cpu. This 3845 gem batch will definitely beat my other 4x i7 920 (3836A756 C0 gem and 3851A368 D0 gems) even without testing I can tell

Time to sell off my older i7 920 cpus I suspect

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Opportunity came to buy a brand new shrink wrapped 120GB OCZ Vertex SSD off ebay for a nice price of AUD$425 saving me AUD$130+

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New set of triple channel memory arrived from Gskill

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Thought I'd take advantage of the stronger Aussie to US dollar and grab some more gear from Adorama.com

• Datacolor Spyder 3 Elite
• 2x Sigma 530 DG Super flashes for Pentax for off camera flash with my existing Sigma 530 DG Super
• 2x LumiQuest Pocket Bouncer diffusers for flashes
• Giottos MH-1001-652 Ball Tripod head with Pan control

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Just bought this cpu 2nd hand, nice clocker apparently - Xeon W3540 3845B010

On Asus P6T6 WS Revolution with 0007 beta bios. Default AUTO vcore in bios reports = 1.088v. Manually need to set vcore to 1.10625v to get 1.088v vcore reported in bios.

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