Ok now more than 5 hours after ordering mine I carried an older one from a building we shut down... The bad news this one was 800Mhz and DID require a VRM. The good news, dell offers these to business users for $19, you have to call though '1-800-www-dell' yes $19 none of that 49 dollar crap (compaq sells thier propriatary ones for 79 so 49 is waaaay over) Just tell em your a business user and you ordered a 1400sc, I did, all is well mine shipped should be here 'bout the same time as the second proc. Please keep in mind my company is a business user and I *am* the primary contact no idea on shipping, but really it doesn't matter. I have seen these VRMs for 25 as well, they are relatively standard by spec, excluding compaq Xeons and maybe P3s, if you notice the linked P2 is the same pic, but most likely it is Identical anyway. BTW newegg was the best deal for the proc, 3year in box 126ish shipped to PA.
One odball thing is I can't track the server anymore, I'mma call them up tommorrow and rip some organs off them if it was cancelled. And yes my credit showed as passed and it was in the config stage last I saw.
Cheers all, enjoy all of you who ordered. I can't wait for my move from scsi2 to U160 in one step
-dc
a post mentioned ECC anyone know about buffering or not, or even what the hell buffering does? so out of the high end server loop