e8400 extinct online?

[jmorrow40]

Tonight I swaggered into TigerDirect.com and they now have E8400s for 229.99 USD. With estimated two day delivery, I couldn't help but grab one.

 

[darkage]

nice, zip uses fedex .. and for the record i hate fedex ... it was supposed to be here yesterday and its coming tomorrow .... Newegg had 12 items packed/shipped same day and on my doorstep the next morning on standard shipping .... Depresses me they were out of stock.

 

[Mousemonkey]

what about the e8500? i haven't seen it around much

Do you mean this thing? http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_i...=9825&osCsid=a16a183f10121fc3b37b598483530f00

 

[sgman316]

I ordered mine from TigerDirect 2 days ago. It said in stock then and all day yesterday (2/20) and now says out of stock. However, my order has not been shipped. It just says "in process at our warehouse." I hope they weren't playing tricks with their quantities. The rest of my upgrade will be getting here tomorrow and I won't be able to do a thing with the parts except look at the pretty boxes till I get my CPU.

Edit: just called TigerDirect and they said it was going to be shipped today. That makes me feel better, I can only pray that it gets here tomorrow . . . I so want to play with my new toy 😀

 

[alpine18]

What about the Xeon E3100/E3110 in LGA775?
I read that these are direct drop-in replacements for the E8400, they just say XEON on the outside.
So far I'm seeing prices of $195-$220 for these online, and plenty of availability.

BTW, I put an E8400 in my shopping cart @ Tigerdirect right before I left work last night. I got home and tried to finish my order online, and the E8400 was REMOVED from my cart and no longer available. Every place I saw that had the E8400 in stock a few days ago is now out of stock. About the only option now for one of these is buying it from a no-name outfit for $275+ or from Amazon @ $300.

 

[sgman316]

I checked again with Tigerdirect yesterday and my order is now on backorder. The Customer Service person said that they should be getting more in on Monday and that it looked like mine was the only one on backorder.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

Paper launch? LOL

Ok ok , just getting back at the fanboys!

Glad to see you have your sense of humor back!