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So I guess what I am really asking is other for the clarification is, should I go with a E6600 in April or should I get a hold me over processor until I can get my hands on a the $266 Q6600?
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Wait for the April 22 price drop (which is official) and get the Q6600 for $530 - a good deal anyway. A E6600(now)+$266(Q3) is going to be more expensive than $530(April 22), and you will have the joy of 4 cores earlier.

bga, thanks for your thoughts on the issue. I'm in the same boat as spaztic7 and really appreciate the discussion.

But if he/we wait till 4.22.07 the E6600 will be $224 + $266 in Q3 = $490. Granted the total price is certainly in the same ball park but there is the outside chance of selling the C2D for a little bit of $ once the Q6600 comes out.
 
But if he/we wait till 4.22.07 the E6600 will be $224 + $266 in Q3 = $490. Granted the total price is certainly in the same ball park but there is the outside chance of selling the C2D for a little bit of $ once the Q6600 comes out.
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It would be good if you can sell your 6600,thats what i always try to do and it works fine most of the time.In any case 4 cores are better than 2 if the price fits your budget.
You can also buy a 1333 FSB capable mobo today and lets hope they will have no issues with new FSB CPUs.
 
you have very very nice prices.....................
here is israel, the E6600 now costs 600$
the Q6600 costs 1300$!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5500 shekels.
do not even start with the extrem editions........

about the quad core gaming- there are now a few games that supports it. i don't remmember which. but i think that a core 2 Extrem is very powerfull and can work nice with the 8800GTX even on SLI.

however- i decide by buget only. i'm planing on a 3000$ machin.
300$ on the cpu, what ever it will be on the time of purchesing....
as well as HD, MB, GPU...
for once i will buy the pc of my dreams.... just to get is out of my system....
 
But if he/we wait till 4.22.07 the E6600 will be $224 + $266 in Q3 = $490. Granted the total price is certainly in the same ball park but there is the outside chance of selling the C2D for a little bit of $ once the Q6600 comes out.
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Sure, there is not much difference, if you factor sales tax and shipping into the equation. If the article referenced is correct about the prices in Q3, a used E6600 in Q3 won't be worth much.... :cry:
I would certainly save myself the trouble of going through another CPU installation and selling/shipping a used CPU, and get the quad when prices come down in may. But then again, there are situations where a used E6600 can come in handy for building another PC.
 
you have very very nice prices.....................
here is israel, the E6600 now costs 600$
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Ouch... 8O Well the prices quoted here are 1000 piece tray prices, so we can't get them that cheap. There are webretailers here in Denmark that sells CPU's for the tray price + 15%. On top of that there comes the 25% sales tax ofcourse :x
But then again, if you are VAT registered you can deduct it 😀
 
I know Supreme Commander is capable of using a quad core. What's the difference between that and a 'truely multi-threaded game'?
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ive heard Supreme Commander makes use of multiple cores for a more intensive gaming, ie, more units on screen, possibly up to 1000 units with full AI with a quad core cpu than u could with a single or dual core cpu's instead of being limited to 100 units on a single core just to keep the game running at speed (therefore removing the limit and adding more units would cause the game to slow down)
 
ive heard Supreme Commander makes use of multiple cores for a more intensive gaming, ie, more units on screen, possibly up to 1000 units with full AI with a quad core cpu than u could with a single or dual core cpu's instead of being limited to 100 units on a single core just to keep the game running at speed (therefore removing the limit and adding more units would cause the game to slow down)
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I don't know that game, but sure would like to see some benchmarks, so it is possible to see how it scales with 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 cores.
 
Sure, there is not much difference, if you factor sales tax and shipping into the equation. If the article referenced is correct about the prices in Q3, a used E6600 in Q3 won't be worth much.... :cry:
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oh, I'm under no illusion that I'd get much for a E6600 once the Q6600 Q3 price drop happens. Maybe $50 if I'm lucky. No sales tax in my state.

I would certainly save myself the trouble of going through another CPU installation and selling/shipping a used CPU, and get the quad when prices come down in may. But then again, there are situations where a used E6600 can come in handy for building another PC.
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True, it would be a hassle but I'd get to do the build now rather then wait 6 months. And *if* the conditions are as outlined then I'm only out $175. Huge "if" I know. Someone on another board suggested getting a E4300 to hold me over till Q3.
 
After reading some of the replies that was posted after I asked a lot... of... questions, I have decided to go with the Q6600 next month if the price cuts actually happen. I have been talking to some people and even though it may be the same price (the current C2D price plus the 266 for Q6600 in October= about same price) to buy the E6600 then a few months later get the Q6600, I am going to just wait for the first price cut and then get the Q6600. Evan though it may not be great for right now, it will get better as time goes on. Yeah there is no point to get a quad core right now (other than bragging rights) but it is like Intel said. It dose not matter how you get the cores there (either the cores talking over the FSB or interconnected), it’s that you have them there.
 
I would say that it's a good decision. Certainly during Cebit in the end of march there is going to be news on CPU and chipset front. Coming the april 22 price drop a quad core is going to be resonable in price, and the picture of whats happening with the Intel Bearlake platform will be much clearer.
 
After reading some of the replies that was posted after I asked a lot... of... questions, I have decided to go with the Q6600 next month if the price cuts actually happen. I have been talking to some people and even though it may be the same price (the current C2D price plus the 266 for Q6600 in October= about same price) to buy the E6600 then a few months later get the Q6600, I am going to just wait for the first price cut and then get the Q6600. Evan though it may not be great for right now, it will get better as time goes on. Yeah there is no point to get a quad core right now (other than bragging rights) but it is like Intel said. It dose not matter how you get the cores there (either the cores talking over the FSB or interconnected), it’s that you have them there.
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Hmmm... I'm going e4300 after april cuts, quad 6600 after Q3 price drop...

even if i just throw away the e4300... its about a $150 price savings. Which I can use for Ram, a better graphics card, monitor... etc.

I WOULD NOT go C2D6600 right now if I were planning to upgrade to a quad 6600... that would be a huge waste money. Besides, an OC'd e4300 is going to give peformance in the same ballpark than an OC'd 6600 for normal "real world" use.
 
<snip> I have been talking to some people and even though it may be the same price ....<snip>
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yeah, I 'hear' you about talking to people, they do have their opinions<grin>

My husband who has built many computers in the past is of like opinion. But he has $$ to burn and on top of that thinks I should go to the LCS (local computer sore) & order the package I want from them. Thankfully he has agreed to give verbal instruction with a little pointing thrown in when I do the build. :wink:

Math for you to consider;
E4300 on 4.22 for $113 + Quad in Q3 for $266 =$379
Take a look at this post from GTuck (#22) regarding the E4300
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=342801
 
Hmm.... I am still torn on what to do. I have planed to buy quad core in April because I will see those prices actually come down then I can depend on the lower price. If I buy a low c2d to hold me over and the next rally of price cuts never come.... then whats the point of waiting all that time. We have all heard from computer manufactures of things they are going to do, but then we never see what they said they were doing or are coming to late (the r600). So I get to grapple with the decision now. To wait or not to wait, that is the question.
 
Course your right, the price drop might not happen but here's why I'm building a system around a e6300;

If the prediction is correct the e6300 will only drop $15 ~ on 4.22
it will be much faster then my P4
I can upgrade to a quad at any time
I can sell my Dell P4 before the price drop
It has a fsb of 1033
 
I will see those prices actually come down then I can depend on the lower price.
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The numbers published for April 22 should hold fine. We are so close that the numbers already has been passed on from Intel to the major OEM's. Theres no going back on them.
Concerning the Q3 prices I was at first very sceptical about them. Its still too far out and a lot of factors influence them (aka Barcelonas performance), and furthermore there was only one (not very well known) source for the Q3 information.
The last part has changed though. The prices for Q3 are now reported by major news sources and there has been no denial/rebuttal from Intel.
But I would say that they first will materialize at the end of Q3, and its still not 100%

If you need a PC right now, then either get the cheapest Core2 and upgrade in Q3 to Quad or get a decent E6600 and live with that.

If you can wait a bit, then buy after april 22, and get a Quad and probably a Bearlake motherboard and be done with upgrading for a while.
 
If you can wait a bit, then buy after april 22, and get a Quad and probably a Bearlake motherboard and be done with upgrading for a while.
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So... is Intel releasing the Bearlake motherboards in April with the price cuts? Sorry for being dense but I am really confused now. Ok, Bearlake is the motherboard that will support the Intel 45nm processors. When are they releasing those?
 
If you can wait a bit, then buy after april 22, and get a Quad and probably a Bearlake motherboard and be done with upgrading for a while.
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So... is Intel releasing the Bearlake motherboards in April with the price cuts? Sorry for being dense but I am really confused now. Ok, Bearlake is the motherboard that will support the Intel 45nm processors. When are they releasing those?

As far as I know, Bearlake has nothing to do with 45nm. It is the chipset that will support the new CPU's with 1333MHz FSB. I saw someplace that it would come out with the 1333MHz FSB cpus, and the date would be the end of april. But I could be wrong.
 
So if I want to buy a E4300 for now and upgrade later to a quad, what mother board would you guys suggest I buy?
 
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