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Conroe or Kentsfield

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My current rig is a p4 2.8 @ 3.5, 1 gig of ocz PC4200, Sapphire 9800XT. The graphics card has blown up, I get multi coloured blocks over the screen perminantly, so its time to upgrade.

The problem is do I wait for the Kentsfield?

I can wait to upgrade for a bit. However I don't want to wait and find out the Kentsfield starts at £800. I know a few people on here think it will start at a high price, but did people think that about the Conroe? I mean 2 Conroe 6300 would only cost £220

I know a lot of people will be interested in your views. Lots of us are thinking the same questions.
 
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Agreed a nicely clocked conroe will see you right for a good while.

Kentsfield will be pricey a 6300 clocked to 3.2ghz is a lot or cpu power for £120



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NathanE said:
I expect the Kentsfield core will initially be used for Xeons and Extreme Core 2's.
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A Quad core will be used for extreme core DUO? I cant see that happening unless two of the cores are unusable
 
Double the price of the equiv Core 2 + 10% and you will have your price.

I dont know the range but I know there is The Core 2 Quad? E6600/E6700 I think.

Just get Conroe..
 
Kentsfields are ment to be extreme editions, i reckon the 6600 XE variant will start at £600 and the 6700 XE to be around £800.
 
<maddness> said:
Kentsfields are ment to be extreme editions, i reckon the 6600 XE variant will start at £600 and the 6700 XE to be around £800.
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I cannot see Intel selling Quad cores that cheaply - otherwise their recent Xtreme Core Duo is going have be a lot cheaper (and its only been out 4 weeks or so)
 
If you read this thread here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17615807&page=2&pp=30

I mentioned a link it said the Kentsfield will start @ $999
Which roughly converted is like £500-600 UK pounds but like others said since its UK that will mean it will cost £700-800.

I dont think its worth buying kentsfield anymore, not at those prices definatly... best to grab a E6600 (if u can) and then wait till QuadCore arrives properly on the PC remember AMDs quad core "Duo2 Killer" should be out Summer 07.

The E6600 would be enough to last a long time yet !
 
Why buy a 4 core cpu when so little uses 2?

You are going to be paying a premium for something you dont use/much.

Wait for quad core to be done properly, imo, k8l will be the first true quad core cpu and intel should have a native quad core design as well.
Untill then conroe is fast enough and has 2 cores.
 
The X6800 from OCUK is £666 ( and £780 inc VAT) ( I am not knocking OCUK price at all) and I cant see that price coming down much at all - after all why do Intel need to with little competition from AMD currently

And even if they do reduce the price, the four core chip is not a direct replacement anyway and with developement costs to think about I cant see Kentsfield coming over under £999 - Intel arent exactly in the business of giving away their latest cpu's after all
 
lay-z-boy said:
Why buy a 4 core cpu when so little uses 2?

You are going to be paying a premium for something you dont use/much.

Wait for quad core to be done properly, imo, k8l will be the first true quad core cpu and intel should have a native quad core design as well.
Untill then conroe is fast enough and has 2 cores.
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some of us do use software that uses multicore CPUs properly. especially when using open source software - they are much quicker to add better SMP support.

if i had quad core i would get a huge speed increase (in my case i do a lot of video editing/compression etc). if you're a gamer then of course you wont get that much of a boost at the mo.

it entirely depends on the user, so the blanket term :

You are going to be paying a premium for something you dont use/much.
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doesnt apply to everyone
 
Of course if they were to release a killer 3d game that was really good Quadcore would take off, I hear Q4 got a massive boost like 30-40fps extra with the second core, imagine it with another 2 cores...And imagine if it was a really popular/major title also.

Not that u would require that sorta insane speed ;) quite possible even next gen cards will be 2x faster then there last card.
 
Core2 clocked will see you threw. I dont no what way Intel are gonna do it but with Kentsfield its 2 dual0core superguled beside each other like they did with there 1st dual core chip.

I was gonna hold out for Kentsfield for just got a E6300 core2 untill the revised quadcore
 
Kentsfield is two Conroe cores glued together. Not particularly elegant but it will still perform like nothing else before and certainly won't be a failure like Smithfield was.
 
NathanE said:
Kentsfield is two Conroe cores glued together. Not particularly elegant but it will still perform like nothing else before and certainly won't be a failure like Smithfield was.
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I completely agree it WILL be a success, but not on the typical desktop.

On workstation machines and servers it will fly off Intel's stock shelves, but Core 2 Duo is going to keep 99% of standard users (and even at a guess a good 80% of people on these kinds of forums) happy for a while to come -imo anyway
 
the desktop user isnt worride what way the ships r made, they only care if the computer works.

the quad core doesnt really bother the every day user, Its us, the oc;s who r bothered.

As far as i am,i will wait untill quad core is a new disgen as such. And by that i mean 4 cores working 2gether in perfection instead of 2 dual cores clued 2gether
 
Gibbs said:
the desktop user isnt worride what way the ships r made, they only care if the computer works.

the quad core doesnt really bother the every day user, Its us, the oc;s who r bothered.

As far as i am,i will wait untill quad core is a new disgen as such. And by that i mean 4 cores working 2gether in perfection instead of 2 dual cores clued 2gether
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Where you drunk when you wrote this? :D
 
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