E2180 or Q6600 for another 1.5 years?

[Corasik]

Sorry to barge in, but I keep seeing this mentioned. What exactly is VID?

Voltage ID. Core processors from intel have different VID, each wafer is tested, and a VID is set for that batch. Lower VID means the motherboard defaults will be lower voltage, basically it means the chip is stable with lower than average voltage. But a high VID means the chip may need extra power just to run at stock, and so the motherboard supplies higher volts.

Of course even with a high VID you can still supply extra volts. The "baseline" VID on a Core 2 Duo is 1.3V but even if you have a VID of 1.3 (mine is 1.2V) you can still give 1.4V for example and get a more stable overclock. Low VID is a good sign that you have a good chip, but it's not always a reliable method of predicting overclock.

 

[kppanic]

Ummm... I just read this...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Nehalem-Kuma,5642.html

If this is the case, and Mainstream Nehalem hits the market at the same time as an Extreme Nehalem, there is no point in trying to hold for 1.5 years any longer!! It's more like 6-8 more months now, which is a great news!

Since Nehalem would mean a new MB, I really need to go cheapy cheapy, I.E. E2180 and get 6400 DDR2 I guess...

Oh and BTW... Poor AMD...

 

[pastymuncher]

Ummm... I just read this...

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Nehalem-Kuma,5642.html

If this is the case, and Mainstream Nehalem hits the market at the same time as an Extreme Nehalem, there is no point in trying to hold for 1.5 years any longer!! It's more like 6-8 more months now, which is a great news!

Since Nehalem would mean a new MB, I really need to go cheapy cheapy, I.E. E2180 and get 6400 DDR2 I guess...

Oh and BTW... Poor AMD...

I said that back in post #35. A good budget rig would be a E2160 or E2180, 2Gb PC2-6400 and a Gigabyte P31 DS3L. That's a solid backbone of a pc for around £120.

 

[kppanic]

I said that back in post #35. A good budget rig would be a E2160 or E2180, 2Gb PC2-6400 and a Gigabyte P31 DS3L. That's a solid backbone of a pc for around £120.

And on top of everything the news basically obliterates any need to get a Q6600 today.

Yay!!

 

[Greebo]

And on top of everything the news basically obliterates any need to get a Q6600 today.

Yay!!

God, some people just aren't happy.

I still thought you wanted a pc for a year and half not because that is how long before nehalem comes out but how long before you have saved up for one or they have dropped in price or I would have said that about 20 posts ago

If you are looking at going nehalem on launch I would expect to pay the following:

£300-£400 for the overclockable nehalem
£150-£250 for the motherboard
plus whatever stupid premium ddr3 memory is still at over ddr2 say £100 for 2gb or really £200 for 4Gb to do the nehalem justice

Therefore total mobo,cpu,ram cost will be £550 - £850.

That's why I'm not going nehalem for another year and a half

 

[kppanic]

God, some people just aren't happy.

I still thought you wanted a pc for a year and half not because that is how long before nehalem comes out but how long before you have saved up for one or they have dropped in price or I would have said that about 20 posts ago

If you are looking at going nehalem on launch I would expect to pay the following:

£300-£400 for the overclockable nehalem
£150-£250 for the motherboard
plus whatever stupid premium ddr3 memory is still at over ddr2 say £100 for 2gb or really £200 for 4Gb to do the nehalem justice

Therefore total mobo,cpu,ram cost will be £550 - £850.

That's why I'm not going nehalem for another year and a half

Hey you don't tell me what I want! lol

You are probably right, either system I get I would cling onto it for at least 1.5 years no matter what I say haha...

It's just that I can tell the little voice on the back of my head that kept on saying "get a quad get a quad get a quad" but now I can finally tell it to shut it.

 

[bledd]

Go for the Q6600, it's plenty for current games and will be better supported in the future