Intel Quarterly Earnings Call: Kentsfield Q4 2006; Conroe will Be Fully Stocked

[deeznuts]

Ok I got a headsup over at the anandtech forum about Paul Otellini saying during today's conference call that Kentsfield/Clovertown will be released in the 4th quarter of this year.

Also he supposeldy said retail channels will be fully stocked with Conroe chips.

Here is the link to the conference call, I just checked but it isn't quite up yet, they are still archiving it. The kentsfield tidbit is supposed to be within the first 5 or 10 mins of the call.

Link to the call - http://biz.yahoo.com/cc/0/64110.html

Link to the source - http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...&enterthread=y

[Sanborn]

the 4th quarter of the fiscal year is actually ends in 07 right ? Or am I confused.

[Eastcoasthandle]

seeing is believeing sometimes. But good find though

[deeznuts]

Yes it is. But the CEO stating this in a quarterly call to analysts, being listened to by probably thousands if not millions of people (even internationally) he has to be pretty damn confident. I would take this as more credible then speaking to say a tech site for sure.

[dissident]

hmm... I'm thinking about cancelling my preorder for the e6600 and buying a e6400 thinking that should be enough to hold me off till kentsfield, since I already have the gigabyte DS3 board in hand...

Looks like it will do an easy 450fsb stable if not higher with e6300 and e6400 chips, but won't break 400 with e6600... hmmm... can't decide...

[RAGING DRAGON]

So Kentsfield could be coming sooner than we thought(hopefully). Fully stocked Conroes should hopefully lead to better prices(hopes again), even though I'm getting one pretty soon after launch, as long as they're still in stock.

[Aganerral]

Intels Fiscal year is aligned with the calendar year. So 4Q 2006 = Oct-Dec. Most likely December

[Gun_Strife]

hmm... I'm thinking about cancelling my preorder for the e6600 and buying a e6400 thinking that should be enough to hold me off till kentsfield, since I already have the gigabyte DS3 board in hand...

Looks like it will do an easy 450fsb stable if not higher with e6300 and e6400 chips, but won't break 400 with e6600... hmmm... can't decide...

damn thats pretty smart to grab e6400 till then but is the Kentsfield gonna be in dec/jan cause i usually do an upgrade every 6 months
so yea e6400 or e6600 is kinds tuff to decide
plus if retailers are stocked we wouldnt need or pre-orders anymore and prices shouldn't be at $350+ on the 27th?

[514y3r]

So Kentsfield could be coming sooner than we thought(hopefully). Fully stocked Conroes should hopefully lead to better prices(hopes again), even though I'm getting one pretty soon after launch, as long as they're still in stock.

Stockwise Ill buy that, but for pricing probably not, hopefully intel will really be frowning upon e-tailers marking up from MSRP.

[Haltech]

Cant wait for Kentsfield. I wonder how it will be priced though. Good news that launch day our conroes will be ready. Ive heard at least 8 avail dates for purchase. This is very frustrating but i have hopes that July 27th will be the day

[Blacklash]

Hmm if Kentsfield is going to be that soon maybe I'll just get an E6300 myself.

[thunderstruck!]

Can't wait for Kentsfield either. 4x crunching goodness.

[GoldenTiger]

Hmm if Kentsfield is going to be that soon maybe I'll just get an E6300 myself.

I'm downgrading my E6600 order to E6400... I'll put the $150 or so saved toward a Kentsfield later. The E6400 is only $40 more where I was looking, so the extra multiplier makes it worth it to me. This news made my jaw drop !

[theteamaqua]

lol some dude OC E6300 t 3.5Ghz = 7 x 500, so u know if ur gonna OC i think 6400, 6300 is more than enough. also get less RAM

kentsfield looks interesting but i hope its not just XE

[couppi]

Looks like from ES samples people are getting E6600 and E6700 kentsfields... Hopefully one of them isn't XE.

Looks like I'll be getting a cheap Pentium D and waiting for Kentsfield.

[NoSinder]

That's a DQ6 Eastcoasthandle, the DS3 has been getting much better FSB than the DQ6.

[dinges]

hmm i wonder how much gain "us gamers" get from four cores if two is allready questionable..

btw for those searching for a tide over proc, go for the E4300. 9x multi 2mb at only ~150$

[dissident]

Right now I'd imagine not too much. Most games will now be GPU bottlenecked with the introduction of conroe. The one exception might be oblivion, but it shows much improvement with conroe anyways. Many apps still aren't optimized for multitreading, but even still, I downgraded to the E6400 for now. 450fsb (or more) will give a nice overclock for a good price.. the alternative is buying the E6600, then buying another motherboard for $200 or more to take advantage of it. I've gotta ask myself what's the best price/performance ratio for me right now considering a nice upgrade may only be a year away.

Seems like the e6400/ds3 combo can't be beat. Perhaps I'll use the extra money to buy a nice directx 10 card when they start coming out. Right now my inkmodded 7900 gt running at 695/800 should take care of things.

Funny, intel's announcement of moving up things cost them a bit of money, people who were willing to buy an e6600 knowing they'd use it for a year or more may be suddenly changing their minds... (although I doubt the actions of a few overclockers has any big bang on their bottom line) :p

[GoldenTiger]

hmm i wonder how much gain "us gamers" get from four cores if two is allready questionable..

btw for those searching for a tide over proc, go for the E4300. 9x multi 2mb at only ~150$

What the heck is an E4300?

[GoldenTiger]

I went with a Kentsfield-ready motherboard (Asus P5W-DH Deluxe) and just switched my buy.com E6600 pre-order for a much cheaper Tankguys.com pre-order of the E6400. Once Kentsfield comes out and is within my price range I will sell the E6400 for it . This is great news!

[Gun_Strife]

lol some dude OC E6300 t 3.5Ghz = 7 x 500, so u know if ur gonna OC i think 6400, 6300 is more than enough. also get less RAM

kentsfield looks interesting but i hope its not just XE

why would you say less ram wont kentsfield use ddr2
so why not get a killer set now
plus i think that 500fsb is not really useable wasnt it the guy with the bt on the chipset

[Direwolf]

Buy the time kentsfield is officially released amd will probably have something worth drooling over. Always something better coming out, its just when lol.

[Mikesnav]

AMD will have 65nm K8s in very small volume, at best.

Can't really compare that with Kentsfield.

[dinges]

What the heck is an E4300?

click

[whoodiestyle]

isnt the kentsfield superpi times no better than conroe?