New chip

[lucifersam]

I would agree with that. Not sure about getting a Core 2 Quad though, the Kentsfield will be an MCM CPU and pretty expensive too! You're probably looking at £650 - £700 for the cheapest one.

Jon

not true Intel will be releasing the non extreme versions of the kentsfield in January the Q6600 will be prices equivalent to the current E6700 so not cheap at over £300 but it should be worth it in my opinion, on the QX6700 the really top of the range one will be £650+

 

[Hamoodii]

Best advice is keep you setup for the minute (for about another month or so) and see how prices drop etc. Surely your current spec will be handle pretty much everything out there?

 

[cavemanoc]

Just ask yourself what you're trying to achieve - what can't you do now that an upgrade will solve for you... seriously... what game is so unplayable that Conroe will make awesome, what task is sooooo slow that you just need more power?

Have to say that I've got a little bored of Oc'ing now so don't let my lack of enthusiasm stop you, but I take the more pragmatic approach now and only buy kit that I actually need, rather than stuff that's the flavour of the month and will squeeze that last point on 3DMark... (apart from scsi, but that's a disease )

I play a lot of Oblivion, BF2, Fear, and X3 and won't be upgrading any time soon (my main rig's a 165 not the old 148 tho) with my 1440x900 tft I can't play anything that hurts my system so no point upgrading and the little dvd editing I do is fast enough.

Really just depends on what you want to achieve (It's soooo easy to get caught up in uprade fever and lose sight of the reality - I know - I've done lots of it!)