Quote Originally Posted by gOJDO View Post
But for an enthusiast, those prices are not very atractive. I wouldn't pay more than $200 for a P2 that works stable 24/7 OC-ed @3.6GHz.
I don't want to sound argumentative solely for the sake, so I'll admit that at this point I'm not entirely certain if even 3.6 will be consistently stable for PhII at this point. So that's actually quite a liberal estimate.

But, I'd say that even for the general "overclocking" community a 3.4 ghz quad (let's just say) that will run cooly will be well received. Especially when it's compatible with existing boards that AFAIK are fairly good at this point as they've been out so long (Bios wise more specifically).

Hell, I typically only run my Q6600 at 3.2 despite it being capable quite easily of 3.6. Simply don't need the extra power for anything ATM so I'd rather have it run a bit cooler.

For truly "Xtreme!!!@! ) users however, these won't be particularly appealing other than for the sheer sake of variety. Which won't go very far. But of course, all of this is moot if you personally define enthusiasts as that top .1% of extremely high end users.