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The Q6600 is a winner , no need to switch from Conroe to K10
Half of current prices! Thats a lot of money off.
Perhaps the E6550 will overclock to at least 3GHz?...perhaps even more.
That's cheap.
Except it's not really a Quad. :)
Maybe this is in preperation of K10 kicking Core 2's ass?
266$ that means 266 or 250 Euro for Europe plus taxes, but still nice price cut.
Really sick prices coming up.
It will be very difficult for AMD i guess =(
If this is true..
Maybe. Lets hope so, will make Intel work harder and drop prices more.Quote:
Originally Posted by frankR
but do u know the reason it'll be so cheap?
AMD might be 40% up in performance but then Intel counter the only way they can by massive price drop.
All good for the consumer, either you go high and pay but get massive performance, or else you pay a pretty small amount and get pretty good performance.
If these numbers are true.
Regards
Andy
because K10 is coming :DQuote:
Originally Posted by MAS
Q6600 for 266$? Wow.
Last time we heard it was rumored:(from the same site).Quote:
Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.40 GHz/4MB L2 x 2/1066MHz FSB), which has been launched on Jan 7, is planned to be cut from $851 to $530, a 37.7% off
And now the Q6700 is rumored to be at this price. I hope they didn't made a glitch :p: .
Quad-Core for the masses .. I like.
i thought this was already older news?I thought they announced the price-drops for the 22nd of april??But there was no talk about the Q6700 then?
wow, did Intel seen already some K10 benches?
If the price cuts gets even bigger maybe I'll upgrade my second rig next year :woot:
i guess yes and moreover they know future A64 X4 pricesQuote:
Originally Posted by DoubleZero
imho X4 2,1GHz for 300 USD
So it looks like AMD will be my next upgrade :)
And there's even more to come ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by brentpresley
WOW. Nice shift in upper processor price near the end of the year. Mind you 6 months away and the first price drop is coming up here soon. Oh can't wait :) Wonder if there dropping there prices in anticipation of 45nm cores coming out near the end of the year?
Urm… isn’t that the price per if u buy 1000.. and not the retail price for one..
Not really my opininion:slapass: I know for you hardware-freaks,who spend all their money at hardware,2007 is a wet dream come true...But for us"casuals"it's getting pretty confusing...I already been looking for a new rig for more than 8 months now,and still i'm not sure what to get,due to the massive amount of rumors and stuff:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by brentpresley
I was looking for a new upgrade almost 2 years...Quote:
Originally Posted by bloodbanger
well if you look at the price per K for the initial C2D release, it was pretty close on the USD side.Quote:
Originally Posted by lookmomnobrains
Europe still got boned a bit
Dammit, I'm trying not to upgrade.
I don't think you really need to upgrade your CPU.
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Originally Posted by xB0n3s
exactly.. I think DirectX 10 performance of the new graphics cards will be a lot more important to us from the usefulness perspective
Difference is probably in timing - Q6600 will got to $530 on April 22nd, then to $266 at some point in H2/2007.Quote:
Originally Posted by Face
Certainly makes me want to sell my E6600 while it's still at its current price, then go for a Q6600 later this year. :slobber:Quote:
Originally Posted by Face
Too bad I'd have to use a Celeron 326 in the mean time. :nono:
thats some serious price drop, upgrade my gimp e6400 to quadcore when that happens
indeed,some serious pricedrops,i think i'm holding off my upgrade plans untill then...As long as my current rig doesn't blow up that is
Q3, this might be so ppl dont buy K10 if it out sooner then that so someone spread this information.
But jesus the prices on CPUs before Conroe hit the street was skyhigh.
They must have made awful lots of money those days.
Now they down to the prices were you normally get a crap cpu for office computers but instead almost get the top of the line cpu.
Its amazing and we have to thank Intel for that.
good lord that is cheap, i didnt wanna jump to quad-core until 45nm. But those prices are very appealling.
AMD better come with a compelling reason for me to swap out my chip and board and probably my cooler instead of just staying Intel and going quad.
nice move on intel, also this should mean that future yorkfield cpus will come quite a bit faster than kents, to justify the higher price. It should also mean that 45nm quads will simply phase out kents and assume their position in price for the best buy option at 266 USD - like the E6600 was when it was released.
AMD better release their quads cheap as well, because it will be hard to sell them at a premium over intel or if they will only have 2 models that they release for the top segment - cause be sure that price for price (the real cpu comparison for buyers) intel will make damn sure they can compete with AMD
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At that price, I'll get a Q6600 and a E6850 and just switch em out whenever I need quad core (encoding) or higher clocks(gaming).
Joking aside, those prices really bring me off the fence from even thinking about upgrading to K10. Unless the performance/price is out of this world.
Unless I can upgrade to K10 (CPU+Mobo) for less than $300. :)
Yes, this makes me feel so much better. I can see it now, quad-core at 3.6GHz crunching away for WCG for the same it would cost for dual-core at 4GHz now. Beautiful, too bad it is 6-9 months away :(
There's no glitch, you just didn't read it correctly. One price is 2nd quarter and the other is 3rd quarter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Face
Welcome to Golden Age of Quad-Cores with Q6600 for 266$
haha .... ding fo K10 !!!
Haha. Good thing I didn't finish my mini PC project yet.
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damn...
Q6600 is going to be at a lower price than I got E6600 for... and its going to happen within 1 year :o
I can't believe that no one didn't take a second to question is there any real truth in this information about this unbelievable price cut??
How come you can take for granted this information? Intel never reviles price cuts in this long future, especially of this magnitude!
I guess when we wish something so badly like 3 GHz C2D for 266 USD, we disconnect common sense!
I think 3 ppl already said "if its true"
Would look stupid if everyone said it..
Ahhhh, Thanks. Makes much more sense now.Quote:
Difference is probably in timing - Q6600 will got to $530 on April 22nd, then to $266 at some point in H2/2007.
There's no glitch, you just didn't read it correctly. One price is 2nd quarter and the other is 3rd quarter.
it probably does have something to do with amd releasing its k10, but i bet it also has something to do with intel releasing its penryn. i know that its only supposed to be on the server side this year, but i wouldnt put it past them to see some higher clocked quads for the desktop. I wouldnt look to see a $300 quad from amd anytime soon. their native quad design is going to keep that price high for a while, because of how hard it will be to make. if they have one bad core, the whole thing is blown out the ass. k10 should be faster, but producing them for amd will be a challenge.
either way, that q6600 is looking like a bargan basement performance chip right now. nice thing is, i can throw it in my current motherboard.
ewwwwww I don't like those new 1333FSB proc's its like paying for a crappier multi.
Q6600 looks so tempting.
Wow seeing how intel is trying to fend of K10 makes me really wonder how good K10 will be.
So are we gona start seeing value series quad core cpu's soon? Cus right now my plan is to just buy a cheapy E4300 until quad cores come down considerably in price.
now that is a price i would pay for a quad core CPU :D
Don't forget your power bill will go up :)
Overclocked quad at load heats like hell actually
LOL here we go a party pooper is in the house :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
price wars :lsfight: :woot:
that seems too nice, AMD was always with best preformance/price ratio (well till conroe) but i seriously doubt that they can beat that price cut so i guess there will be many of us staying with intel even if k10 owns
1.) Some did in fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nedjo
2.) Never? Well actually, they do. C2D prices were out long before they were on
the market. Other price drops were also out, and they also were accurate. The
april 22 price cuts (& new models) were out last year.
But I agree. Might even be a typo (maybe $366? Still a big drop, but not as
unreasonably drastic).
if it was the inq i wouldnt think anything of it, but its from hkepc so it Might be true, ya they do seem really out of this world but who knows Intel probably knows what K10 can do and this might be thier responce....at least we can dream until is confirmed or denied :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nedjo
Add 2xGTX, striker xtreme and you can boil eggs for sure if you water cool your rig :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
hahahah :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Millyons
wow, AMD is in for some serious trouble.
<300 for a quad core.
All I gotta say nomatter if this eventually falls in favour of Intel or AMD;.....Nice
!!!!!!!!
Man, us consumers really benefit from this one! This news is so good that it almost makes me want to prospectively plan a new build by the end of this year...almost...heh, but not quite.
i dunno, if nvidia do have a chipst out for K8L by then, i dont think ill get Q6600 at Q3
as u can see only good the SLI + quad core overclocking board is EVGA 680i A1, so i dunno ill see what happens b4 i made my decision, but K8L better put up a good fight otherwise they r doomed ...
I will be all over a Q6600 for <300.00USD. I will buy two at that price:)
Tell me about it, I keep my window open even when its 40-50f out, and my room never gets cold....Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
Quads make CRAZY heat, nevermind it uses 530 watts just in ORTHOS! That is 100+ more watts than a 1.6v L628B xeon 3060!
after 60 days, yes, but there was s pretty bad markup for a while, around 100$ per CPU.Quote:
Originally Posted by LuckyNV
right now it's below MSRP in most places though.
looks like water is a must for 'decent' oc on kentsfield q...?
Ah man, does this mean that Yorkfield is really going from Q3 to Q1?
That sucks!! :(
use for quad? recent app and games doesn't even take fully advantage of dual core.....hehe
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Originally Posted by TEDY
cao komsija,
ya but for video encoding.... what i do every few days, DV avi to mpg takes my e6600@ 3.5ghz about 1h 40min and a qx6700@ 3.2ghz i tried did it in an hour :)
thats at least why i would want one
čiao ;)
hehe i know...maybe i'll wait for quad myself....:P
kako ide dole? :D
folding :DQuote:
Originally Posted by TEDY
but if quad is cheap, why not go for it, if the technology is out and about, software developers are more inclined to put resources into it, so its all good.
theres nothing unbelievable here, remember by using a multi die package rather than a true quad core, intels yields for quad cores are exactly the same as for dual cores.
I wouldn't be suprised if we see even cheaper chips using 2x allendales released for the OEM market. Intel can still make a profit selling cheap quad cores at the prices AMD will have to sell their k10 dual cores for to break even - the question is whether intel shareholders would allow intel to get by on lower margins?
Hmmmm looks to me like INTEL know exactly how their cpu's are gonna perform once k10 hits. 50% OFF QUAD-CORES just before k10's release??? I reckon INTEL have seen those elusive benchmark scores we're all lookin' for. :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by kemo6600
On the plus side though, atleast more people will be able to afford them now.
I think Intel want AMD to be destroyed and never come back, at any cost.
It can happen..and that day is a bad day.
lepo evo opet nesto zima, fino za jos malo coold air behchovanja :)Quote:
Originally Posted by TEDY
LOL with these prices Intel could have skiped dual cores and ya that is a good point about yeilds on multy die over the native quad design....on another note wonder is if this has anything to do with the other thread in the news about AMD wanting 30% market at any cost
A reminder:
Core 2 Duo @ 2.93 GHz (they call him extreme edition) costs 999 USD!
So is there any reason for Core 2 Duo @ 3 GHz to cost 266 USD three or four months form now?
so does the qx6700. The x6800 is essentially a legacy product. With the quad cores priced higher than the duals, there are still two price brackets open, possibly for 2.93 and 3.2 ghz quad cores. (possibly 2.93 ghz q6800 and 3.33 1333fsb XE?)Quote:
Originally Posted by Nedjo
Intel should do it now.:)
Going from all the info regarding prices, and indeed the summary wombat posted, should we be expecting a qx6800 in Q2 and a qx6900/6950 in Q3?
I wasn't aware the QX6700 was going to see a price drop. If K10 performance isn't overwhelmingly better than Kentsfield I think a QX6700 will be in my Crysis machine later this year. :)
No, no, and no. Q6700, not an unlocked one, QX6700 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by OzJustin
Sounds like great news today but wait and see how great these CPUs will be in Q3, i doubt it will be very interesting to spend money on these at the time. Could be nice for putting a Q6400 or Xeon3210 in wifes rig or something, for main rig Conroe will be old and boring stuff. If people were to buy CPUs "because they are so very cheap now" then why not go out and buy Pentium D or X2 today? Becuase those are boring processors, just like Conroe will be by the end of the year... Already in Q3 Conroe will start to take the place held by X2 today, how interesting will it be to buy one then?
I don't care if it will be interesting or not - it will be great value and performance! :p:
either way you have great performance.
I'm an AMD fanboy, but I tend to buy the highest performing product from the company that does not hold the performance crown... If I was building this fall, I'd probably look at AMD's prices and cry and get a q6600 and oc the hell out of it.
Ryan
Cheap Q6600... DFI nF680i on the way... 4Gb DDR2 kits emerging... 8800 prices dropping...
Maybe the stars are aligning for me after all :p:
4gb kits...
I still think you all are jumping the gun on that one.
Ryan
As long as you don't compromise on speed, you can never have too much RAM ;) Vista and game releases this year WILL make use of 4GB, it's natural evolution.
So has Intel decided to drop Q6400 from its lineup?
i only pray on my bare knees this news is true..I'm preparing to buy me a new rig around may,but if this is all true,i'm delaying it to the 2nd half of 2007...
What i don't understand is why a E6850 is becoming almost as cheap as a E6600?Why is that?
It's 25% (3 vs 2.4) faster in the same price bracket over a year between release..
Q6600 nice prices 266$ :toast: Q3 2007 ;)
Joj kak tu ima puno "na?ih"... :D
I'm loving these price drops... but looking at that chart this news was leaked to soon and judging that it is in Q3 and just before the Intels new lineup is due it is pretty normal I guess
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You know what? Even if K10 is competitive with the predicted C2D/C2Q price drops (and this means nothing unless retailers abide by them) along with the performance vs P4 still performs very will in game & program currently in the market. As far as DX10 programs go, there are none as of yet. Also, do to the nature of DX10 games it will be more heavily dependant on the GPU (if we ever see one).
Lets say that K10 beats C2D, the only true bragging rights one can have is through benchmarking. This isn't the day of P4 any more where optimum performance was achieved after you OC'd it. Nor will it ever be like the P4 to C2D performance gains were the majority of consumers will benefit from C2D/C2Q use from a P4 (people who care less about benchmarking and heavy OC'ing). You can run your programs and games now a days with a C2D, without having to OC and, you still achieve optimum performance (coupled with a decent gpu).
Games like Fear, BF2, Quake 4 and Company of Heroes all can run at optimal settings (again with a decent GPU) with a C2D, now. So anything that can possibly can do better would still be limited to consumers based on cost, IMO. This is were the Intel price cuts may outshine K10's performance gains IMO. What it all boils down to is simple, is it worth paying $xxx.xx for a new CPU, MB and possibly Ram for a few FPS increase? Also, how will DDR3 factor into this equation on both sides of the fence? I am not sure, but once the DDR3 ram is finally supported (by MB's) and released to the public, will this change performance ratio? Only time will tell at this point.
But apparantly there's a huge margin for the producer, otherwise a price drop like that would become like pushing Xbox360'sQuote:
Originally Posted by brentpresley
If there is any truth in this, and god I hope so, they must be scared :banana::banana::banana::banana:less for K10.
It's really pointless to think this way, AMD is in financial trouble as it is and the release of a CPU(s) (be it better or not) will not turn this problem around. It's funny how some down play this less then what it is (lets not forget the $2.5 billion term loan from Morgan Stanley). What will help AMD is to see them broaden their branches in other vital markets (as online news reported during the ATI merger some time ago).Quote:
Originally Posted by TG01
Well it looks like Intel is looking for some heads.
Lets put this into perspective. Amd states that the ramp for k10 will be somewhat slow. Which will probably mean two things, shortages and high prices (high prices from the shortages of course).
Intel may get more marketshare by doing this. Cd2 a good performer in every way (heat/power and efficiency). Make no mistake Intel is looking for blood.
:banana::banana::banana::banana:, i was hoping for C2D price's cut, but this is amazing... look at those prices !
Now waiting for ATI to bring some good competition... I wont be buying a GPU 2x the price of a High End CPU (maybe 3 times the price).
The price cuts do look great, but most people still gotta buy a new mobo and memory....... whch isn't cheap at all.
This is great news! Hopefully this holds the same for Yorksfield.
lol mabey its a early april fool joke
no joke, Intel already cut 631 prices early (like they said they would)
q6400 will not be released
Price cuts should be on time (as long as thing go as planned) and next gen intel chips don;t hit any snags.
I've got a e4300 and will be buying another mobo and e4400. Then upgrade both sytems to q6600 (q3) and dump the other chips on ebay.
I'm a folding maniac.
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Originally Posted by Millyons
no it's just a delayed price that was suppse to happen a month or 2 ago.
Looking forward to Q6600.
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Originally Posted by fhpchris
I saw your 700W+ thread. I didn't think that was actually possible! Man you should post that one @ Spcr and see what what people say just for a laugh. "Well guys it's almost green, kinda.." :D
Question: How high does it clock on 1.1V and what does it pull in W while in idle at this Vcore? I'm thinking EIST at 1.1 and 1.325V like I do with my 6600 (see sign.).