Penryn pricing, $209 for a Quad Core?

And remember, clock for clock, Penryn quads outperform C2Q by a considerable amount.
 
so expensive lol. but.. In time they shall drop..and imagine. after taht comes Gesher.
16mb cache :eek:
 
Yeah, I find it hard to justify paying $50 per core.

I mean maybe if there were some sort of buy 1 get 1 free deal.
 
Intel's got the knife in, and now they're twisting it.

At 2.xx GHz, this will be Intel's slowest mainstream Harpertown quad-core. At the same time, it'll be Barcelona's top speed.

Since Harpertown is DP, a consumer desktop version of it should be <$209. I'm guessing $183. This might be a Q1'08 event though.
 
I wouldn't be too surprised if these were the release prices for Penryn. Not too many seem to be wondering why Intel slashed C2Q prices by so much.

But now I wonder how will thise Penryns will overclock.
 
Clock for clock in SuperPi Penryn is 10% faster than Conroe which isnt that big of an increase IMO to warrant waiting for one with Q6600s at $266 soon.
 
The extremely expensive edition 1st @ 3.33Ghz 4th quarter by itself, so it can bask in the glory of being the only 12Mb cache processor (and also the fastest thing on the planet).

Probably in time for the Xmas buying season..... ie: late October to mid November.
 
Great thats my next upgrade, know I have to find a right motherboard
for that cpu, maybe the P5K Deluxe Board
 
lixuelai said:
By then X38 will be out. I would just wait for X38.
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Thanks I will wait. I am after a quadcore 45nm, motherboard X38
(Thanks to you), Video card and 4 gig of good Ram.

Is it wise to get them all together or piece by piece when they come out?
 
if you buy them piece by piece... with time between them... like weeks or a month+, then the price often drops by the time you get the other pieces. So you might as well wait until you have the money for them all at once.

IE: you buy a videocard $500....then a CPU $220.... then a motherboard, ram, etc..

Lets say its 2 months later by the time you finish buying everything.
Well that same videocard may only be $480, CPU might have dropped to the next price bracket like $180, etc...

So no... piecemeal on computers is usually a bad idea.... unless the timespan is very short between start to finish.
 
Get an idea of when you are going to build your computer, then get an idea of how much its going to cost when you want the computer. If you see the part for cheaper while you wait then by all means go for it.
 
chrisf6969 said:
if you buy them piece by piece... with time between them... like weeks or a month+, then the price often drops by the time you get the other pieces. So you might as well wait until you have the money for them all at once.

IE: you buy a videocard $500....then a CPU $220.... then a motherboard, ram, etc..

Lets say its 2 months later by the time you finish buying everything.
Well that same videocard may only be $480, CPU might have dropped to the next price bracket like $180, etc...

So no... piecemeal on computers is usually a bad idea.... unless the timespan is very short between start to finish.
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Not true.

If you're buying piece by piece, you're suppose to be buying WELL below market price.

Are you telling me you can find 2x1GB of PC2-8500 RAM for $85?
 
geez up 16 mb of cache, where the hell do you need all that cache for. i thought my 2 mb on my e6300 was adequate....
 
CoW]8(0);1031289189 said:
Not true.

If you're buying piece by piece, you're suppose to be buying WELL below market price.

Are you telling me you can find 2x1GB of PC2-8500 RAM for $85?
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Actually what Chris wrote was spot on. What you wrote just looks like incoherent rambling to me.

EDIT: actually what you wrote makes sense after reading a few times over. Your logic is incorrect though. Buying piece by piece has nothing to do with buying the absolute cheapest product you can find.
 
Like I've said before, more cores is the only way to go for Intel.

Which really helps explain why the Penryns are going to be priced are going to be priced so competitively. Penryn is probably going to be the beginning of the multi core era of CPUs.
 
More cores is the only way to go for both Intel *and* AMD. The mythical 10GHz cores Intel wanted out of Netburst/P4 will not be happening anytime soon (if at all w/ the technology currently used to make CPUs). But not too long from now we'll start seeing 8-core (octo?) chips. Just need the OS/software/game programmers to better support what is now the mainstream.
 
The way to go is efficient multi-core cpus. Why build an inefficient 10Ghz single core cpu that cant be completely owned out by an efficient 10Mhz 10 core cpu?

I thought AMD taught everyone that GHZ doesnt matter so much as efficiency. And then I thought by now Intel and AMD would have done a good enough job of drilling in the fact that mulit-core cpu's are better than single core cpu's.
 
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