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OK, who's waiting for Nahalem?

I think that Nehalem may suffer from C2D being too good. As has already been mentioned, the E2140 runs most "everyday" apps and many games easily. We are much more limited by the GPU at the moment. Games are going to take a long time to catch up to the technology that is around at the moment in terms of CPUs-I could quite happily get by by upgrading my E4500 to a Penryn sometime next year, and then waiting until the next range of chips come out post Nehalem a year or two later. Unless games make a significant leap forward in terms of CPU requirements, this would be far cheaper and would not make a whole load of difference.

Having said that, I certainly am not saying that Nehalem will be slow-I expect some significant gains over C2D in terms of power, but I feel that this power will be overkill. Additionally, I disagree with whoever it was that said that it would be too expensive-I expect that mobos will be around £100, the lowest "enthusiast" chip around £150 and 4GB DDR3 to also come to about £150. It seems a fair price for the technology, and for anyone building a new PC will be the obvious choice, but to me doesnt seem necessary in terms of an upgrade.
 
heh i went from a amd 3500+ single core to a Q6600 @ 3.4ghz... the performance jump was incredible. This setup should last me 3 years i reckon :)
 
I may get a cheap E6600 (would have to be a 100 or so to consider it though) other wise, pretty much holding off on the whole new upgrade.

Not really anything taxing my PC that much at the moment, other than the odd bit of video encoding.
 
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