Is now a bad time to buy - the CPU market over the next few months

[Troop]

I cracked,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, All the new bits looking at me .

6600 on the way.

Troop.


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[setter]

tell me something.

why on earth do u need to upgrade your computer?
nothing takes the power of that rig up yet?
depending on ** gfx card thats a very nice rig u have already
why the upgrade?

came into a bit of money so decided to treat myself to a new system, the one in my sig is almost 2 years old and for certain things its a bit slow eg video encoding ill be keeping the 8800gts for the new rig though

 

[Rezident]

Ok thanks all. I'm going to recommend waiting until July and plumping for a Q6600, and a P35 board that supports DDR2 and DDR3 (probably Gigabyte) if by then we have some positive overclocking data for the chipset.

Thanks for the info, very useful.

DO any of the P35 boards support both DDR2 and DDR3 on the same board? The ones I've seen so far are either DDR2 or DDR3. Both on the same board would be ideal, future-wise, but is there even enough room for all the different slots on one board?

 

[Shimmy]

DO any of the P35 boards support both DDR2 and DDR3 on the same board? The ones I've seen so far are either DDR2 or DDR3. Both on the same board would be ideal, future-wise, but is there even enough room for all the different slots on one board?

The board I intend on getting around 22nd July , is the Gigabyte DS3R (P35 ofc). I believe this has support for both DDR2 and DDR3:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-086-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

 

[steve258]

DO any of the P35 boards support both DDR2 and DDR3 on the same board? The ones I've seen so far are either DDR2 or DDR3. Both on the same board would be ideal, future-wise, but is there even enough room for all the different slots on one board?

Gigabyte P35C DS3R ......

 

[ots3go]

Gigabyte P35C DS3R ......

Great, you've just made me decide to go that route . thanks a bundle!

 

[Rezident]

Excellent

Nice one, cheers.