When do you think there will be a drastic price drop?

stewart.r@ntlwo · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:39

When do you think there will be a drastic price drop on say this system below? I’m wanting to get a new quad system but I’m really think the QX is on its cutting edge bracket.
I priced a system about 5 months ago and it came it at around £1200 now its more like £500. It was at the time what you might say Nearly the Dogs….But now looks poor.

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
Abit IP35 Pro DDR2
4GB DDR3 (2x2GB) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3
Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200RPM SATA-II
Antec Nine Hundre
Enermax 1000W Galaxy Power Supply

Sorry just to add that Vista 64 home premium does that come with the 32 bit version as well? I read that it does on retail?

addylad · 1 Mar 2008 at 16:57

no i think its one or the other

Jobe · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:03

stewart.r@ntlwo said:
sorry just to add that Vista 64 home premium does that come with the 32 bit version as well? I read that it does on retail?

indeed it only comes with 32 bit. you have to send off for the 64bit media.
don't forget you have to do a clean install again to get from 32 to 64 bit.

jobe

stewart.r@ntlwo · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:09

I've got XP pro and its been fantastic, but thought time for vista....

Space Monkey · 1 Mar 2008 at 17:47

stewart.r@ntlwo said:
When do you think there will be a drastic price drop on say this system below? I’m wanting to get a new quad system but I’m really think the QX is on its cutting edge bracket.
I priced a system about 5 months ago and it came it at around £1200 now its more like £500. It was at the time what you might say Nearly the Dogs….But now looks poor.

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Edition QX9650 3.00GHz (1333FSB)
Abit IP35 Pro DDR2
4GB DDR3 (2x2GB) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3
Seagate Barracuda 750GB 7200RPM SATA-II
Antec Nine Hundre
Enermax 1000W Galaxy Power Supply

Sorry just to add that Vista 64 home premium does that come with the 32 bit version as well? I read that it does on retail?

Just to note that the Abit IP35 Pro is a DDR2 mobo and you have spec'd DDR3 for the system? maybe a typo?

Save some cash on the 1kw PSU, if you really want the Enermax Galaxy get the 850w version.

Peace

stewart.r@ntlwo · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:05

Yeah the set up is for DDR2 I changed it to DDR3 without thinking just to say its what I'd rather get.

thanks all the same

crazyDAJT · 1 Mar 2008 at 18:47

i doubt that will price drop within the next 6 months,

don't bother with DDR3
get a Q6600 will do the same as that processor unless you are clocking to the extreme, that saves you 400 quid

EDIT: at the moment that spec comes to 781.35 just on CPU and Motherbord, hardly 500

Mangelwurzel · 1 Mar 2008 at 19:52

crazyDAJT said:
at the moment that spec comes to 781.35 just on CPU and Motherbord, hardly 500

Think he was referring to a diffrent system, one he was looking at 'about 5 months ago'.

aph · 1 Mar 2008 at 21:13

Everything is cheap at the moment?

4gb of ddr2 = cheap
dual core that can clock to 3.5ish GHz = cheap
8800GTS = cheap

with a bit of tweaking you can get a cheap system now... i don't see a good reason to wait?

why buy quad core... i've not seen any benchmarks that make go wow i've gotta have one.

stewart.r@ntlwo · 1 Mar 2008 at 21:49

Mangelwurzel said:
Think he was referring to a diffrent system, one he was looking at 'about 5 months ago'.

Yeah it was only a dual core System which I thought at the time was great till the reviews I read about the lower Quad core and its very easy safe overclocking.

crazyDAJT · 2 Mar 2008 at 00:07

you want:

Q6600
p35 motherboard, unless you relay want to go SLI or Xfire
4GB of DDR2 800Mhz or 1066Mhz RAM
8800GTS or hold off for the good 9's
Corsair HX 620W
and what ever hard-drives you want

tumtums · 2 Mar 2008 at 01:00

Never.

If you think like that you'll put off your upgrade forever.