New System

Usual Suspect · 15 May 2006 at 14:00

Currently have

P4c [email protected]
asus 9800XT
1gig corsair DDR 3200 ram
asus p4c800 deluxe mobo

Looking to upgrade but im wondering if it would be best to wait a little while as ive heard a lot of thing might be coming out. What sort of time scale for the next amd+intel chips. and whens the next ati and nvidia cards due out. Im not good at waiting .. or would it be worth upgrading now?

Usual

div0 · 15 May 2006 at 14:06

AMD's new AM2 cpu is out in the next 2-3 weeks

Intel's new Conroe cpu is due to be out July/August time I think

I doubt we'll see any major release from ATI or Nvidia (R600 / G80) until near the end of the year.

If you can wait until Conroe then that may be worth doing, as early benchmarks have been very encouraging. AM2 doesn't look like it'll offer much over the current 939. So you may be best to upgrade just now if you don't fancy waiting

hp7909 · 15 May 2006 at 14:06

AMD AM2 pretty soon, around June/July maybe :rolleyes:

But being a whole new package it might take some time to settle in i.e. components, speeds, prices, compatability, etc

earlyflash · 15 May 2006 at 14:47

Bear in mind that not many new games will be released over the summer. Everything gets pushed to Sep/Aug time now anyway.

I'm waiting till after summer, the new stuff is out, and new games force an upgrade...

Usual Suspect · 15 May 2006 at 17:51

Does anyone know the sort of prices these will be. I *** a nice fast Pc but would never justify spending 200% more for 20% performance. Looking at the AMD 4000 just for games. The conroe does look good:-

Intel Conroe

I am very tempted to wait.. but come august if they are stupidly priced as most itel chips seem to be then im affraid amd can have my money.

div0 · 15 May 2006 at 18:09

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17575254

Jolteh said:
The only pricing I've seen is:

Core Extreme Edition Series - 1333MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, VT, SSE4
Core Extreme Edition - 3.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 95W - $999 - Q3

Core E6000 Series - 1066MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, VT, SSE4
Core E6800 - 2.93GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $720 - Q4
Core E6700 - 2.67GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $529 - Q3
Core E6600 - 2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 4MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $315 - Q3
Core E6400 - 2.13GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $240 - Q3
Core E6300 - 1.86GHz, 1066MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 65W - $210 - Q3

Core E4000 Series - 800MHz FSB, EM64T, EIST, SSE4
Core E4200 - 1.6GHz, 800MHz FSB, 32+32KB L1, 2MB L2, Dual Core, TDP 45W - $___ - Q3

It never converts from $ to £ in accordance to the exchange rate though, we always end up paying more.

Remember that you can't just convert US prices into £ and expect that to be what'd you'd actually pay here

I'd say the E6600 @ $315 will probably be £220-270 over here - but that's just my guess.

But if you were on a budget the E6300 @ $210 will be around £150-180 I'd have guessed!