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Heres a question for you. I am going to be building my new PC soon, however I came to a conclusion.

I was going to be buying an E6750 towards the beginning of January and get my new PC going, however after looking ahead, I see the E8400 for the exact same price. Would you all say rough it with no gaming to get the extra bang?

I just bought http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A4308035
I have a 550watt psu already and my case.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813127031 is Motherboard I plan to purchase as well as an 8800GT.

Thoughts? January 20 is a bit Away and would leave me without a gaming machine except maybe regular counterstrike and day of defeat on my lappy lol....
 
Prices for processors fall all the time. Why not just go for the 6750. Games are to fun just to let it lie.
 
If all you want is a dual core CPU, then I would advise waiting for the Penryns. The latest reviews of the 45nm architecture show that the chips run so cool, people are likely to find that their OC limits are caused not by heat but by the chip's own power design limitations. Furthermore, a dual core chip will not put much stress on a current-gen P35, X38, or 680/780i motherboard. You should be able to reach a very high OC without yet-unreleased or expensive hardware.

However, if your plan is to wait for a mainstream Penryn Quad, take note that you may not be able to overclock one much more than you can a current generation G0 Q6600 when paired with currently available motherboards and RAM. For a mainstream Penryn Quad ( such as the Q9450) to reach 4ghz, you'll need a FSB of 500mhz, as the Q9450's max multiplier is x8 (compared to the Q6600's x9.) Currently no motherboard can maintain a 24/7 stable 500mhz when paired with a quad, except for some very finely tuned X38 boards. In order to OC a mainstream Penryn quad beyond the Q6600's good-air-limit of 3.6ghz, you'll likely need a 1600mhz motherboard, which will itself likely require expensive DDR3 RAM.

Furthermore, while the current generation Conroe architecture was cream of the crop for over a year and half, it may be that the Penryns have a relatively short shelf life, as Intel's roadmap calls for a second-half 2008 release of their new revolutionary Nehelem architecture--a substantial departure from Core 2, and its Pentium Pro / III predecessors.

Mark.
 
See thats the thing that makes me really want to wait with the overclocking. I tend to upgrade my computer about every 3 years. Looking forward a month seeing an E8400 which overclocks to 4ghz makes me really stop and say, should i wait for it?

I will probably try to wait till Jan 20, however we will see if I can last that long without a real PC lol...
 
Just wait for the E8500 man. This will be an AWESOME CHEAP chip.

9.5x multi means an even easier OC.

6mb cache etc.

WAIT one more month.
 
It's been said the new Intel chips are delayed. Therefore he may be waiting much longer for this E8400 and E8500. Unless you know something I don't, I think that is the long and short of it.
 
ahhhh.. I stand corrected. Well if I can get one for under 180 and it can get to 4GHz, then I might have to put the hold on my quad core adventures.
 
Intel say rumors of delay are false:

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/...nclick_check=1

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/...says_nuts.html

"Unsubstantiated reports out of Taiwan claim that AMD (NYSE: AMD)'s recent quad-core bug troubles have caused to Intel (NSDQ: INTC) push back the launch of the first 45-nm versions of its desktop Core 2 Quad processors. Only problem is, Intel says it ain't so.

The Digitimes story that's attracting attention today speculates that Intel sees no imminent competitive threat from AMD. The story draw from this the conclusion that Intel doesn't want to cannibalize its current top-of-the-line 65nm parts, and so it's delaying the launch of three desktop 45-nm Penryns from January until February or March.

This all sounds plausible enough so that it prompted me to go straight to Intel to get a yea or a nay out of them. Prefacing his comments with the caveat that Intel normally doesn't comment on such speculative stories, a spokesman at the chip giant e-mailed me back: "We’ve been public since November that we plan to introduce a host of new mobile and desktop processors based on our 45 nm and reinvented transistors in Q1, and there are no changes to that plan."
 
do we know what socket set these chips will be running on? If they bring out a new socket type the prices could be higher too!
 
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