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Conroe out July 23rd!!!

killer_uk said:
Well if you look at the pricing guide picture on the previous page to this one, the Intel Pentium 4 950 Dual Core is priced at $316 - the same price the conroe will be launched at.

Overclockers sell the 950 for £229 - so I guess conroe will be around the same price.....maybe. :p
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so you reckon the 2.4ghz conroe will be around 230 quid?

I'll have one aswell as my opty 170!
 
I agree with what you first said easyrider...

my system eats alive any of the games I play on my system, and until I find it struggling I see little point in upgrading to the conroe chips (new cpu/mobo/memory/waterblock) is an expensive deal.

I do like my benchmarking scores a lot like every overclocker here, but mehh, cant justify all that money for a few seconds or points in a bench test :|
 
So how much do you think a new system will set me back?

I'll probably get about £220-240 selling my 3200 64, 1gb ocz plat rev2, mobo and X800XT agp when the conroe is out.

do you think these prices are about right?
Conroe £250-300
Mobo £120
Ram £140
Grfx £160 1800XT or 7900GT

I was looking at ram like the Patriot Signature 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit, will this be fine for a mild OC on the conroe chip?

Or theres the low latency 4-4-4-12 for £165
 
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Im gonna keep my pc for a while longer ive got quite a bit to buy this year:
PS3 60gb version+games for it
X2 cpu- im still decideing on that
graphics card with dx10
vista

So as you can see if i keep to that plan i will not have enough for a conroe system. By then the second lot of conroe will be out and better mobos.
 
DanF said:
So how much do you think a new system will set me back?

I'll probably get about £220-240 selling my 3200 64, 1gb ocz plat rev2, mobo and X800XT agp when the conroe is out.

do you think these prices are about right?
Conroe £250-300
Mobo £120
Ram £140
Grfx £160 1800XT or 7900GT

I was looking at ram like the Patriot Signature 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 667MHz DDR2 Dual Channel Kit, will this be fine for a mild OC on the conroe chip?

Or theres the low latency 4-4-4-12 for £165
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Indeed.

As far as I can see, G.Skill has the best offering of price - peformance ratio on their 2GB DDR2 kit.
 
There's a few Conroes all over that auction site at the moment.. almost double the RRP though! E6600s for £400, etc. The price of being an early adopter I suppose!
 
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 LA PC2-5300 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-5400PHU2-2GBLA) (MY-012-GS)

Would that be suitable for a conroe? I'm not planning on overclocking so would these run it at full stock speed?

EDIT: Just found this over at [H].

core2memory8ma.jpg
 
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killer_uk said:
EDIT: Just found this over at [H].

core2memory8ma.jpg
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Damn!
With like a Corsair C4 DDR2 6400, one can OC the E6600 by 50%?!
Man, just hope there'll be a good nForce590 Mobo for OCing...

Durzel said:
There's a few Conroes all over that auction site at the moment.. almost double the RRP though! E6600s for £400, etc. The price of being an early adopter I suppose!
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Why am I not surprised Malaysia's selling them...
I use to live in Singapore and crossing over the courseway to get PC parts is cheap as chips - he/she auctioning is making a killing.
 
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@killer_uk interesting chart as I'm thinking about buying the E6600 as it happens. Does anyone know what effect a divider will have? Will it be detrimental or will it be like the 939 architecture where it doesn't really matter? That way we can buy RAM accordingly.
 
Intel also made it a point to mention that by the time Conroe ships DDR2-800 will be the memory of choice, however dual channel DDR2-667 already offers more memory bandwidth than Conroe’s 1066MHz FSB can use so the fact is meaningless.

thats what anandtech say :)
 
easyrider said:
Intel also made it a point to mention that by the time Conroe ships DDR2-800 will be the memory of choice, however dual channel DDR2-667 already offers more memory bandwidth than Conroe’s 1066MHz FSB can use so the fact is meaningless.

thats what anandtech say :)
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I really couldn't afford to get DDR2-800 anyway, It would put me way over budget for what is going to be the most I've ever spent on an upgrade.
 
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Explicit said:
@killer_uk interesting chart as I'm thinking about buying the E6600 as it happens. Does anyone know what effect a divider will have? Will it be detrimental or will it be like the 939 architecture where it doesn't really matter? That way we can buy RAM accordingly.
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Just like on any other Intel, don't even bother running anything less than 1:1 as it will hamper performance. 3:5 or 4:5 is better still.

easyrider said:
Intel also made it a point to mention that by the time Conroe ships DDR2-800 will be the memory of choice, however dual channel DDR2-667 already offers more memory bandwidth than Conroe’s 1066MHz FSB can use so the fact is meaningless.
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Overclocking to DDR2-800 will raise the fsb to 1600mhz at 1:1 and 1280mhz at 3:5. DDR2-800 and DDR2-1000 will give the best performance on Conroe.
 
surely the only way amd is going to be able to compete with conroe is to reduce the price of their fx chips by about 400 quid ?

and even then people will mostly go down the conroe route
 
just read the whole thread, took a while on my dial up!

think im gonna wait for a while and find out what steppings and boards will be best. ;)
reading this has made me decide to not bother with a dual core or am2 at the minute, wait a while and see what is best!
gotta love the look of conroe though, not had an intel chip since my p3 way back when.., not a fanboy or anything but i have always just gone with what gave me value for money, for the last few years it has always been amd though, looking forward to getting to grips with intel as i dont really know anything about them.
those superpi times look sweeet :D
is there an intel equivalent of an opteron, ie a chip that has the same or better architecture and is pretty much guaranteed to overclock really well? sorry for the noob question! :rolleyes:
 
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