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starting quad pricing

is anybody sure if these will be sold to the public, i might of misunderstood but you need to buy the qx6700 in 1000 quatities to get it for $1000 (only something for dell etc)
 
Yes, they will be sold to the public. Once prices stabilize (after a month or two), retail at sites like newegg tends to be within 5% of the price in bulk.
 
well shit, looks like intel just rained on my parade. i was planning on holding off my slew of upgrades untill quad core came out, but at 800 sum bucks for the low end one i guess i'll just stick to a regular core 2 duo.... or perhaps wait for the AMD thing
 
schizo said:
Yes, they will be sold to the public. Once prices stabilize (after a month or two), retail at sites like newegg tends to be within 5% of the price in bulk.
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after a month or two? aw man are you sure?
 
If you need/want something now just get an affordable Conroe chip and a quadcore compatible mobo and then upgrade later 6 months or so down the road once the quadcore prices become reasonable. Some of the existing 965 & 570 mobos are already quadcore compatible and the newer 590s & 600s that are due out next month are bound to be quadcore compatible as well. :D
 
lozaning said:
well shit, looks like intel just rained on my parade. i was planning on holding off my slew of upgrades untill quad core came out, but at 800 sum bucks for the low end one i guess i'll just stick to a regular core 2 duo.... or perhaps wait for the AMD thing
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Feel ya on that one man, looks like just the regular c2d for me
 
Jester1550 said:
Feel ya on that one man, looks like just the regular c2d for me
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That's why I went ahead and got a Core 2 last month. I had wanted to wait for the quad, because going from a single core 3700+ to any quad would have been awesome. Then I thought about cost and whatnot, but cost was the only thing I could think of that could spoil my plan.

I'm glad I didn't wait :)
 
si0dine said:
So we're gonna have to wait for yorksfield for <=$300 quad cores?
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waiting for yorksfield is a pretty good idea. it's a 45nm 8 core processor... the smaller architecture should make the processor cheaper, and higher clocked. THe roadmap's i've seen has projected 3.5-4.0ghz wolfdale processors too. That's damn nice, and based off the conroe architecture, but revised for efficiency.

btw, in essence, the kentsfield is just 2 conroe cores glued together and squeezed into a package called the kentsfield, lol.
 
StealthyFish said:
waiting for yorksfield is a pretty good idea. it's a 45nm 8 core processor... the smaller architecture should make the processor cheaper, and higher clocked. THe roadmap's i've seen has projected 3.5-4.0ghz wolfdale processors too. That's damn nice, and based off the conroe architecture, but revised for efficiency.

btw, in essence, the kentsfield is just 2 conroe cores glued together and squeezed into a package called the kentsfield, lol.
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So wait, whats the next $150-$350 processor?
 
StealthyFish said:
waiting for yorksfield is a pretty good idea. it's a 45nm 8 core processor... the smaller architecture should make the processor cheaper, and higher clocked. THe roadmap's i've seen has projected 3.5-4.0ghz wolfdale processors too. That's damn nice, and based off the conroe architecture, but revised for efficiency.

btw, in essence, the kentsfield is just 2 conroe cores glued together and squeezed into a package called the kentsfield, lol.
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Yorkfield is actually quite a mystery, as I have have seen multiple rumors on this processor all with different specifications. I seriously doubt that it is a 8 Core processor, I doubt we will see one of these until Intel can pack 2 Native 4 Core processor onto a Single package at the minimum.

The oldest rumor was it being a 8 Core Multi Die processor. (Tomshardware)

The next rumor I have seen is that it is a Native Quad Core (HKEPC)

Judging by the way the information is iterated on (VR-Zone). I would say the Yorkfield is a MCM of Ridgefield (a 6MB version of Conroe on 45nm node).

So it's just hard to say at this point what Yorkfield will come into being as.
 
si0dine said:
So wait, whats the next $150-$350 processor?
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I say processors based on Allendale and Conroe will remain in this price range well into H1 2007, it will probably won't be until H2 2007 where we might see the 45nm versions of these Dual Cores. So the lowest Core 2 Duo to the Core 2 Duo E6600.

Quad Cores forget it for this year and H1 2007, they will be in the stratosphere in terms of pricing.
 
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