Intel Quad-core Price Cuts Before "Barcelona"

[HighlandeR]

Yes its been posted 3x already but this articles more detailed:

http://www.dailytech.com/Aggressive+Intel+Quadcore+Price+Cuts+Before+Barcelona/article6488.htm

The Q6600, launched last month, sells in quantities of 1000 for $851. By mid-April Intel guidance suggests this processor will already price down to $530. The next price cuts, labeled "Q3 2007" will coincide with any launch events for the AMD quad-core products.

Looks like this article suggest mid April we will get the Q6600 @ 350-£400

And then my July-Sep with AMDs launch it will cut to £200-250.

That sure gets on my nerves especially when im considering to buy a new rigg

 

[eracer2006]

does anything take advantage of quad core ?

3ghz quad core would suit me perfectly.

 

[malccy]

T'is very tempting indeed.

 

[JeffyB]

Very tempting prospect, faster video encoding and more games supporting multi cores could swing it for me. Shaping up to be a good time to be buying cpu's with the new amd's as well

 

[regulus]

not even tempting, at those prices im getting the debit card out.

 

[pcAnywhere]

Do games that excel with Dual core show a significant benefit with Quad Core?

My concern is... have software companies designed software to work with 2 cores or "n" cores..

 

[regulus]

Do games that excel with Dual core show a significant benefit with Quad Core?

My concern is... have software companies designed software to work with 2 cores or "n" cores..

They will eventually, and sooner rather than later. Valve just spend the past 10 months recoding Source to take advantage of quad cores, it's said that HL: EP2 will take advantage of quad cores and DX10 cards (read it today somewhere, will post link when I find). Alan Wake will make use of quad cores and the new White Engine that'll power FFXII, will make use of quad cores. Expect companies like Crytek, Bioware, ID Software to follow suit.

Edit:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2050559,00.asp
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74121
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=301 (From Intel)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060929-7868.html (very interesting)

 

[Scoobie Dave]

And then my July-Sep with AMDs launch it will cut to £200-250.

Nice.

 

[drunkenmaster]

They will eventually, and sooner rather than later. Valve just spend the past 10 months recoding Source to take advantage of quad cores, it's said that HL: EP2 will take advantage of quad cores and DX10 cards (read it today somewhere, will post link when I find). Alan Wake will make use of quad cores and the new White Engine that'll power FFXII, will make use of quad cores. Expect companies like Crytek, Bioware, ID Software to follow suit.

Edit:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2050559,00.asp
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=74121
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=301 (From Intel)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060929-7868.html (very interesting)

support, utilise but not need.

hl2, cs:s, they all run way in excess of 100fps with a single core with a decent gfx at maximum quality, they are making it support dual/quad cores, will it make a lick of difference, not in the freaking slightest. what it will do is make the engine more sellable to other companies who want to make their game with the engine. quite frankly it allows and helps maybe for some quicker game developement, codes a bit rusty and inefficient, who cares, you got extra cores to take up the slack or on the flipside, games that wanted to implement further physics tweaks have the power to do so easily.

the only game i know of that uses a quad core at the moment is sup commander and it makes around maybe 3-4fps at the most, like 45-48fps or something on a 8800gtx 2gig type system. but the main issue with that game on single cores isn't top fps, or average, its the minimum you hit when in some huge fight, and the min doesn't change i don' think dual/quad core, changes hugely from single/dual core though.

theres nothing hugely complex coming out this year i don't think. the euphoria engine sounds like the next big step in physics engines and if that warrants a quad core i dunno, but thats earliest about a year from now.


the Q6600 is gonna be closer to the £160 mark in september, right now the price listed converted + vat is £161, so we shouldn't see it for more than £175(after the first week of, "hey look i got it in stock first, give me £30 more than you should")

 

[HighlandeR]

At the moment there doesnt seem to be any benefit to Quad cores but its just titles like Supreme Commander appearing and HL2 EP2.... course we could very well have Crysis in June and Epics Unreal 2007 poss the Summer also.

To me it may just proove worthy to jump to quad core if such titles are appearing, may as well wait another month and then get a Quad core and R600 now but man still sux waiting

 

[sajtion]

i'm still gonna wait for barcelona chip and then decide what to get

 

[drunkenmaster]

i bet (as in bet for bigger internet e-penis and no actual money ¬_¬ ) that barcelona, and all derivitives of it for dual core and what not, will be faster than intels offerings. i'm guessing 13-22% faster depending on application, but games, being gpu limited obviously won't show this.

but reviews will point out that a quad core soon for £170 from intel is more than enough for any game for today and the next two years so do you really need to spend 15-25% more on the faster amd alternative.

only thing i can't guess on is will amd be able to increase pure clockspeeds of the chips. they've basically not moved in air overclocking Mhz for 3-4 years though clock for clock performance has improved. but if a quad core intel can clock to 3.2-3.4Ghz and amd's offering can't break 3Ghz, that might also be a reason to not go amd still.