Intel Price Cuts : Quad core for £350 ?

[lay-z-boy]

Chart is around 1 month old.

Amazing how quickly things get outdated, isn't it?

 

[nicktay2605]

Are these quads really worth it? Or only worth it for rendering? All I'm doing on my computer is gaming and general use, no editing or rendering. So does this make a quad core purchase a waste of money considering I have a pretty new E6600?

 

[Big.Wayne]

Are these quads really worth it?

I don't think so!

£350, for a CPU? are you out of your mind!!!!!

 

[megatron]

For gaming am I correct in thinking dual core (or even quad core), is only used in games which are specifically made to use multiple cores. Ive only seen a handful of games specifically saying dual core let alone quad core. Ive seen reviews saying things like "u can encode and play games at the same time", doesnt really stike me as being particularly useful.

If Im playing a single player game I might have a P2P app in the background but u dont need a whole other core to do that. Ill be getting a core2 soon, still on opteron [email protected].

 

[Participant]

History shows it's never truly worth spending more than £150 on a CPU for an average home user!

 

[gurusan]

I don't think so!

£350, for a CPU? are you out of your mind!!!!!

I'll wait til they drop in price a bunch and can get one used.

I just made the C2D jump from AMD x2 and now my next upgrade will be the GPU....R600 depending on pricing....or maybe 8800GTX

 

[The $6m Dan]

For gaming am I correct in thinking dual core (or even quad core), is only used in games which are specifically made to use multiple cores. Ive only seen a handful of games specifically saying dual core let alone quad core. Ive seen reviews saying things like "u can encode and play games at the same time", doesnt really stike me as being particularly useful.

If Im playing a single player game I might have a P2P app in the background but u dont need a whole other core to do that. Ill be getting a core2 soon, still on opteron [email protected].

There are very few games that benefit from multiple core processors. Supreme commander is the only one I can think of that sees big benefits from dual and quad cores. Most games see much smaller gains, but that will change over time. Alan Wake and the Source engine are supposedly going to see big gains from multiple cores. Not sure when they're out though, later this year I think.

 

[easyrider]

I don't think so!

£350, for a CPU? are you out of your mind!!!!!

Thats how much the opteron 170 were (around300) and if IIRC you had about 5 lmao

 

[easyrider]

I think people are forgetting how much a AMD x2 4400 was when they were released.

 

[A2Z]

For gaming am I correct in thinking dual core (or even quad core), is only used in games which are specifically made to use multiple cores. Ive only seen a handful of games specifically saying dual core let alone quad core. Ive seen reviews saying things like "u can encode and play games at the same time", doesnt really stike me as being particularly useful.

If Im playing a single player game I might have a P2P app in the background but u dont need a whole other core to do that. Ill be getting a core2 soon, still on opteron [email protected].

so true! im also still on opty [email protected] and its fine for me, it really depends on what you use your PC for and if you NEED to upgrade to a more expensive CPU.

 

[easyrider]

so true! im also still on opty [email protected] and its fine for me, it really depends on what you use your PC for and if you NEED to upgrade to a more expensive CPU.

I use my laptop 75% of the time or surfing email etc...

its a P4M 2ghz

However I video edit on my main PC and a quad core really is something special

 

[khemist]

Think i'm going to go sell my 6600 and go for this, although i wonder how the temps will be when overclocked and now we are coming into the warmer weather.

 

[easyrider]

Think i'm going to go sell my 6600 and go for this, although i wonder how the temps will be when overclocked and now we are coming into the warmer weather.

My QX6700 reached 70c under water when clocked to 3.6ghz

They do pump out some heat

 

[lay-z-boy]

Indeed but when you think about it, that's not 1 core, not 2 and not 3 but 4 cores at 3.6 (+vcorex4). That's an impressive amount of power in both heat and computational speed.

 

[Johnnytoxic]

Until sony sort out the PS3 and its fussy mpeg4 tastes Im doing lots of video converting. I welcome 8 cores