Quad cores affordable pricing has arived

[Fozzie]

http://www.scan.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?WebProductID=585512

I don't know about you but that is getting into tempting territory.

What's the price like over the pond?

[GHOST]

it's not tempting me

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115017

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

Hi Fozzie..... I would double check with scan that it is an extreme CPU.

and look on ebay.com (USofA) for the better price:cheers:

[LAURENU2]

:rock:
$ 547.50 - core 2 quad q6600
$ 976.50 - core 2 extreme x6800
$ 999.00 - core 2 extreme qx6

[Fozzie]

buying from the US would be good as long as you can avoid the exise duty.

[Scooby Doo]

£329 with free postage from www.ebuyer.com if you use google checkout ;)

Ok so its ony £5 cheaper :rotfl: but a saving none the less :D

[cwhyl]

4995 SEK over at the other pond, that's like £333 or $735
tempting yes..

[Bok]

I'm officially tempted. Got about $1k spare to put into a new machine, so quad-core it is. Not straight away as I'll wait until I'm home for a week to build it.

What mobo is recommended for overclocking a QX6600? I'd like to get it up to 3Ghz or so..

Bok :rock:

[Helix_Von_Smelix]

:rock: you have so got to get one of these, i am getting another two in a few weeks!! http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=560972 Oh yeah, get corsair mem for it!!! :rock:

[Bok]

Cool. Cheers for that

Corsair Mem it is then. 4Gb XMS2 DDR2 is only $109 at Newegg after rebate..

I should have everything else I need already..

Bok :cheers:

[Bok]

I'm delaying this...one of the ebay sellers I've used regularly has some 22" Viewsonic LCD's I couldn't resist :)

Bought two of them to by my primary desktop display. Will replace the 2 19" viewsonics I have..

Awesome deal by the way. 96 of them available for $200+$45 shipping!

22" LCD (http://cgi.ebay.com/ViewSonic-VX2235wm-22-LCD-FLAT-PANEL-MONITOR-BLACK_W0QQitemZ140115131796QQihZ004QQcategoryZ51047QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Bok

[Digital Parasite]

I will be looking to go quad-core sometime this year but first I want to wait and see what AMD has to offer along with the next Intel release.

[PS2pcGAMER]

Intel is slashing the price of the Q6600 to $266 come July 22. That's half its current price.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=159894&t=515717

[Jeff]

Intel is slashing the price of the Q6600 to $266 come July 22. That's half its current price.

http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=159894&t=515717

http://www.adventurevision.com/smilies/wave.gif Long time no see Jeff.

Hope things are going well for you. :cheers:

[PS2pcGAMER]

http://www.adventurevision.com/smilies/wave.gif Long time no see Jeff.

Hope things are going well for you. :cheers:

I recently upgraded to an 3600+ x2 (running 2 F@H clients for Free-DC, of course), so I figured I'd start stopping by a little more often.

I'm doing well. I hope things are going well for you and everyone else here.

[Tallbill]

Cant wait to see what prices will be like when its time to build again.. probably about january. Should be able to pop up two quad core systems cheaply.

[em99010pepe]

I think you guys shouldn't go for the Intel quad core machine.


Unlike Intel’s Core, Barcelona gives each core dedicated L2 cache, and Barcelona incorporates a redesign that reduces cache latency (access delays). Barcelona adds Level 3 cache, a newcomer to the x86 and a page out of IBM’s POWER playbook. All four CPU cores in a Barcelona socket will share a single master catalog of recently-retrieved data. A three-level cache is a must-have for a multicore CPU, and that becomes obvious when you get a demo that switches L3 on and off.

source (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/02/07/07OPcurve_1.html?source=NLC-CURVE&cgd=2007-02-08)

[cwhyl]

$266 for Q6600 is just amazing :looney:

Since I already have an i965 board this will be the perfect cruncher :smoking:

[jasong]

64 days until I buy my first quad-core, if I'm patient enough. Otherwise, it'll be an upgraded dual-core.

[Fozzie]

we'll have to see what benchmarks it will do.

80% increase in FPU efficiency sounds promissing.

[jasong]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3189364&sku=MBM-680I-Q6600&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1393CA

What do you think? (I've already got RAM and a case for it)

[magnav0x]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3189364&sku=MBM-680I-Q6600&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1393CA

What do you think? (I've already got RAM and a case for it)


Sweet deal. That's a $200 mobo on newegg.

[Bok]

Nice.

Ordered one along with 2Gb OCZ memory and 600W PSU :)

Seems to be basically the new July 22nd prices.. I wonder if it's a mistake somehow..

Bok

[jasong]

I wonder if it's a mistake somehow.
That would suck. I promised my dad I'd sleep on my decision, and there's no way they would let a mistake like that stick around overnight.

[Bok]

mine has all shipped now, so I guess it's not a mistake..

[Fozzie]

performs. :thumbs:

[Bok]

It'll probably arrive on mondaybut I'm travelling to Atlanta for the week, returning on friday night before flying up to NY on saturday afternoon.. I doubt I'll be able to build it until July 5th :swear: :(

But at the same time I'll bring online the dual dualcore IB has just sent me...

Bok :cheers: :thumbs:

[Bok]

Just a quick update.. Looking over my order now it has shipped it has broken down the CPU as $322.

The mobo looks like it is one of the better overclockers too..

All in all I think this is a great deal and it's still going on for anyone on the fence :)

Bok

[em99010pepe]

Bok,

Please look at this post (http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=106416&postcount=15).
There's a benchmark for the intel quad-core processor with prime95 v25.2.

Carlos

[Bok]

Negativity...

That's one persons benchmark. Other have shown better scalability and anyway I'll probably never run prime95...

[em99010pepe]

Negativity...

That's one persons benchmark. Other have shown better scalability and anyway I'll probably never run prime95...

Agree it's only one persons benchmark but prime95 is know as a good bench torture software. Anyway, got the money to buy a new machine and I'll go for the true quad-core from AMD.

Carlos

[Bok]

I'll probably get one too, no reason not to have both.. I seriously doubt AMD's ability to provide the quad cores in serious numbers before christmas though..

It's a pity..

Bok

[Digital Parasite]

Yeah Prime95 needs a lot of memory bandwidth so I can see the new AMDs performing better for that. Hopefully in the fall I will be getting something quad-core-ish, just hope AMD releases sooner than later.

[Darkness Productions]

Any dual proc mobo's available for this?

[Bok]

yes, but then you need to use the xeon 53xx series quadcores I believe..and the prices start rising...

Bok

[Darkness Productions]

Can you use those in single proc config? If so, can you shoot me some links to appropriate hardware, with prices?

[Bok]

Quad core is running with the Ultra ChillTec cooler installed (this thing is HUGE!!). Running a mild overclock at 2.5Ghz right now and BOINC running 4 instances of Riesel LLR..

Temps are holding steady at 41C under full load :)

Bok

[Digital Parasite]

Bok, how is the scaling on that with 4 BOINC threads running compared to say just 2 running? You getting anywhere close to 4x the speed over 1 CPU?