> if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all. Maybe the probl

> if you can't just buy it at Best Buy/NewEgg/Amazon (not from 3rd-party overseas sellers), then it's not applicable to this discussion at all. Maybe the problems you were having with sourcing the cpus you wanted have something to do with the arbitrary limitations you were working under? Meanwhile, other people (as per sibling comment) were able to buy these same chips without issue. ;)