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Old May 12, 2010, 02:35 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Mussels View Post
considering hte price difference between the high end x4's and the lowest x6, there was really no price gap for it to go to.

likely, they just had very few bad x6's and decided to lower the price on them, instead of making an x4 to fill the gap.

Agreed. Im sure the binning process is much better now, so fewer defective cores are being found, resulting in higher yeilds of full X6's.
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