Are new G0 chips really too good OCers? - No!

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I'd also not be so sure that they're going to charge a premium... they're not doing that for their current (and brand-spankin-new) FSB1333 'flagship' products.

Still going off a theory i have, but I really think that the G0 chips bin out much better from Intel's standpoint. So its much much cheaper to make them as you get many more mainstream binned die per wafer. I would venture a guess that the price points of the new 6*50 chips (even with the nice price cut when compared to the 6*00 stuff) have a very nice buffer against the cost of manufacture.

Can't really compare that to Penryn and it's still young process.

Edit:

True... my guess is March/April at the earliest for the affordable (sub-$500) 45nm quads - which is 8-9 months out from now. Even if they manage a Jan/Feb release, that's 6-7 months away.

Another consideration (one way or the other) is that those new 45nm parts will be the last of the socket 775 lineup. Sometime late '08 ('09?) Intel will introduce a new socket with an even newer cpu design.

So... you could upgrade to a Q6600 (or one of the E6x50 chips) now, and then 8mos. or a year from now grab one of the 45nm parts (if it makes sense at the time - heck, maybe AMD will have pulled it's head out of it's ass (or it's ass out of the fire) by then) to ride out the rest of the S775 life-cycle.

and I'm very not sure on this one, but i believe that mainstream Nahalem stuff that's still on a FSB could go without a socket change, but I only work in manufacturing so I don't hear about this stuff.