Oc Cut price of Quad Cores

[easyrider]

well i dont agree

Thats fine,

any basis on your claim?

 

[james.miller]

Thats fine,

any basis on your claim?

yes, it very poor value for people who dont do the things i stated above in at least two separate posts in this thread. what are your reasons for claiming otherwise? YOU think its good value for money so that makes it such. am i right? do you represent people who arent interested in encoding and such as a primary use?


no, you dont.

 

[easyrider]

Thats fine,

any basis on your claim?

EDIT:
x2 4400 : 270
x2 3800 : 220

Q6600 offers a massive amount of cpu power for the money.

People paid those prices at x2 release.Was it to pricey then?

 

[easyrider]

I think what he means is that in terms of just pure technology the Q6600 is great value, but in realworld terms it's not because you will rarely use all 4 cores and hence the E6600 is better value at £180.

I know what he means lol

I argue the fact

 

[james.miller]

I argue the fact

you argue anything. fact.

 

[easyrider]

yes, it very poor value for people who dont do the things i stated above in at least two seperate posts. what are your reasons for claiming otherwise? YOU think its good value for money so that makes it such. am i right?

if you surf the net and check email get a celeron 3ghz

If you use and need the power then quad at 350 is a snip.

 

[james.miller]

if you surf the net and check email get a celeron 3ghz

If you use and need the power then quad at 350 is a snip.

still not worth the price tag tbh. i cant justify it and i wouldnt recommend it to anybody unless their primary use for it was rendering or encoding.

no you wouldnt. there's hardly anything out there short of rendering apps and encoders that do anything with 4 cores. 4 cores may be the way of the future, but right now they arent needed by most of us

sorry what were you arguing about again?

 

[easyrider]

you argue anything. fact.

I'll question flippancy based on an ideal that makes no sense.

If you want the power and will use it

350 quad is a hell of a lot of cpu power relative to cost

 

[easyrider]

sorry what were you arguing about again?

You claim cpu power is based on user?

Do you need 6600 and the 4mb cache for office?

Your posts are clouded by personal gratification.

I suggest you look at the bigger picture.

I have a 8800 GTS 320 MB card is 8800 GTX worth it?

having had both,I would argue that the GTX is not as I have the same mark in 06 as my stock GTX and game at 1650x1080.

Yet you have a GTX?

 

[Big.Wayne]

I suggest you look at the bigger picture.

I suggest you try and heed your own advice, I think your lost in cyberspace!

If you think £350 is worth it then thats your opinion, no one can change it but if I think its a mugs game paying that much then thats my opinion, its not open to debate.

I thought you turned over a new leaf and decided to stop spending all your money on high end components lol

Quad-smod, if you got the money spare go for it, if not enjoy what you got and smile at the pile of cash on your desk that you managed not to spend!

 

[easyrider]

I suggest you try and heed your own advice, I think your lost in cyberspace!

If you think £350 is worth it then thats your opinion, no one can change it but if I think its a mugs game paying that much then thats my opinion, its not open to debate.

I thought you turned over a new leaf and decided to stop spending all your money on high end components lol

Quad-smod, if you got the money spare go for it, if not enjoy what you got and smile at the pile of cash on your desk that you managed not to spend!

You bought opty 170's until they were coming out of youre ears?

they were 300 each

 

[Big.Wayne]

You bought opty 170's until they were coming out of youre ears?

they were 300 each

You used to **** in your pants and spill your food all down your bib, but I don't feel the need to drag up events that took place along time ago, whats your point?

 

[easyrider]

You used to **** in your pants and spill your food all down your bib, but I don't feel the need to drag up events that took place along time ago, whats your point?

My point is why was it ok to pay 300 for a cpu then and not now?

When the cpu now poops all over it.


whats changed?


Just like miller says its ok to spend 400 on a 8800 GTX but not 350 on a cpu!

BS

 

[Big.Wayne]

My point is why was it ok to pay 300 for a cpu then and not now?

It wasn't ok, I just got caught up in the hype from reading all the posts about how AMAZING! they were and to be frank after about one month I decided the performance wasn't any different from the overclocked 146 I had been using.

I change my viewpoint as the years go by, you seem to change your viewpoint every month.

It's pointless trying to reason with you, but I'm up for the crack every now and then!

Just like miller says its ok to spend 400 on a 8800 GTX but not 350 on a cpu!

BS

Thats a really silly thing to say, he is just stating his opinion and its one I share, your gonna have to live with the fact that quite a few people don't agree with you Easy, you give the impression that there is some kinda of 'universal easyrider truth' when in fact your just one guy.

Just understand that if people don't agree with you, it doesn't make you wrong, it means they just don't see things how you do, sheeesh!

 

[easyrider]

It wasn't ok, I just got caught up in the hype from reading all the posts about how AMAZING! they were and to be frank after about one month I decided the performance wasn't any different from the overclocked 146 I had been using.

I change my viewpoint as the years go by, you seem to change your viewpoint every month.

Fair enough

It's pointless trying to reason with you, but I'm up for the crack every now and then!

Datta boy

Thats a really silly thing to say, he is just stating his opinion and its one I share, your gonna have to live with the fact that quite a few people don't agree with you Easy, you give the impression that there is some kinda of 'universal easyrider truth' when in fact your just one guy.

Just understand that if people don't agree with you, it doesn't make you wrong, it means they just don't see things how you do, sheeesh!

Thats exactly my point,poeple see value in different things,

But suggesting getting a quad for 350 is not a good idea when one goes and blows more on a GFX card is hypocrisy imo.

 

[Big.Wayne]

But suggesting getting a quad for 350 is not a good idea when one goes and blows more on a GFX card is hypocrisy imo.

I think your a bit sleepy because your not really thinking about this properly.

If your a gamer then the 'bulk' of your budget obviously should go to a beefy GPU and as your well aware any Conroe/Allendale clocked to 3GHz + is well up for anything you can through at it.

As I see it (not a fact) the difference between a clocked (£150) dual-core and a clocked (£350-£700) quad-core is just not something that I value as a consumer.

My research indicates that the only people that will buy a quad-core at that price point are professionals that use 'predictive-task' multithreaded software (i.e video rendering, 3D-rendering etc), or people that just have a really obscene disposable income (the same people that will spend several hundred pounds on a meal!), then there is ePennie brigade who despite the fact they may live at home with their parents, wear the most minging clothes, have large debts are just somehow magically made 'uber' by the fact they have the latest silicon under the bonnet of their PC (personal computer), lastly it would appear that the only gamers who benefit from quad-cores are chess players who use something like DEEP Fritz software.

Technology is cool, I'm well up for the latest and greatest but I now understand the difference between "I need XYX" to "I want XYZ"

Quad-Core is just marketing guff atm, if you fit into one of the catagories mentioned above then go ahead and buy it, enjoy it, in the meantime I will continue using my overclocked e6300 and loving it, nice one INTEL, nice one AMD for driving the prices down!

 

[james.miller]

But suggesting getting a quad for 350 is not a good idea when one goes and blows more on a GFX card is hypocrisy imo.

i bought a gtx because its the best period. it's for a specific task and at the time there was nothing better. i suggested a quad core if they are going to use the other two cores because they are the best. where's the hypocrisy?


if somebody said 'i'm a casual gamer' a gtx is the last card id recommend. grow up and stop nit picking at posts, because everybody here knows what im saying except you. somebody who buys a quad core, 8800gtx and phase cooling is in no position to preach to anybody about value for money.

 

[easyrider]

i bought a gtx because its the best period. it's for a specific task and at the time there was nothing better. i suggested a quad core if they are going to use the other two cores because they are the best. where's the hypocrisy?


if somebody said 'i'm a casual gamer' a gtx is the last card id recommend. grow up and stop nit picking at posts, because everybody here knows what im saying except you. somebody who buys a quad core, 8800gtx and phase cooling is in no position to preach to anybody about value for money.

I have a

6400@ 3.8ghz
8800 GTS 320mb 650/2000

This setup seems to suggest value for money.

 

[WJA96]

this is a good idea, still too expensive for my liking.

i would like to know how much the e6600 is going to be after the 22nd.

That's the question you should be asking. If they want to tie up people's money now, what other bargains are there to be had on or after the 22nd?

I would never pre-order anything ever again from anyone after all the carp that went on last year over the Core2Duo's. OcUK were swearing blind they'd have them first and I'd already received my CPU from a competitor at a lower price.

 

[Participant]

The amusing thing about this thread is that easy and miller are agreeing on the crucial point - that quad core for £350 is worth it for people that have a use for four cores i.e. renderers and coders. This is both the most obvious and most salient point.