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Super Tigers

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So, who is going to splash the cash and get one? The Msi 790x mobo looks quite good if you just want 2x 16xpci-e slots. At the moment I am going to let early adopters wade and pay the premium prices.

Rob H
 
Buy one when it actually is better then its competition. Only a fan boy would buy one at those prices considering how the q6600 kicks its ass. It needs to be cheaper to be competition.
 
Heh - their retail price is actually set lower than the comparative RRPs for the Intel Q-series... if that's not earlyadopter-ism, I don't know what is.

The main thing going for the Phenom is the fact that - Performance per RRP - it's bang on exactly the same as the Q6600. I suppose if retailers are already heavily discounting their Q6600s in anticipation of Yorkfield, however...
 
Interesting price, for people like me who are starting fresh with a new platform its all swinging on how well it clocks and if AMD mobos are up to P35 standards....

I wait with baited breath.... Q6600 Vs the Phenom Menace lol
 
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Super Tigers said:
So, who is going to splash the cash and get one? The Msi 790x mobo looks quite good if you just want 2x 16xpci-e slots. At the moment I am going to let early adopters wade and pay the premium prices.

Rob H
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Not me, just bought a new build, stopgap E2180 until the Q9450 is out. No fanboyism, (currently running an aged 754 socket AMD64 3200), just that bang per buck, Intel has the upper hand at the moment.
 
I have the Msi 790x board and a Phenom 9500 in my OCuk basket, £244 inc vat and postage. I have found a buyer for DS3 and 6300 in my sig who will give £100 for the pair. I am tempted, in car speak the 'price to change' is £144, is it worth it? Not sure about the MSI board though.

Rob H
 
Super Tigers said:
I have the Msi 790x board and a Phenom 9500 in my OCuk basket, £244 inc vat and postage. I have found a buyer for DS3 and 6300 in my sig who will give £100 for the pair. I am tempted, in car speak the 'price to change' is £144, is it worth it? Not sure about the MSI board though.
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But a Q6600 and Gigabyte P35-DS3 comes to £236 inc vat and will be much faster, especially when overclocked.
 
You'd be kicking yourself if you did that, especially when the CPU drops about £30 in a couple weeks or so...
Not to mention the performance decrease you'd experience, unless you are using apps which make good use of quad core? (In which case you'd be better grabbing a Q6600)
 
riddlermarc said:
But... but... if I buy a Q6600 surely it's not going to fit my AM2 motherboard? No fan boyism here, I'm on a certain upgrade path..
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You just had to be alwkward didn't you :p

What upgrade path is that? Crossfirex? I doubt it will scale very well but we can always hope so as it will mean nvida neesd to give better sli support. But surely its best to get an intel board... unless you already have a amd boarsd. In which case... buy a new one u silly amd fanboy :p lmao!

Jokign aside as im not a intel fan boy. I think uyou should wait a while because currently they dont go over 2.4ghz properly and are to expensive. When the new revised b3 steppign comes out they should be quite competitive and fairly decent overclockers. But nothing compared to the new intel chips probably.
 
cooljimy84 said:
i can't see how the quad is slower ??
i mean they must be making it smarter as well as faster ?!?!?
or are they just pumping them with extra grunt ?!?!?
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I am interested in the Quad core chips, nearly ready to shell cash out, but this is a good point - do Quads go slower if the siftware doesn't use them properly. Surely them manage at least on duel core? I have an old dual core Athlon and all sorts of programs seem to use the cores, judging by a cpu meter on my desktop, so would not Quad Cores?

As a matter of fact is there any software at all out there that is built to use all 4 cores?
 
Super Tigers said:
I could just stripout the 6300 and slap a q6600 into my DS3, my bios is flashed to support the quad cores.

I suspect iy would be buying for buyings sake really.

Rob H
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Why bother at all, push the clocks on the 6300 and it'll prob hold you nicely.... unless you really need the Quad for editing/CAD ect then there really arent that big improvements over dual cores, especialy in games.

remember the early days of dual cores?

Anyway, i still recon my E6400 will suit me untill Nelahem hits the shelves in late 08 or early 09..... Though a mate of mine may well hand me his B3 Q6600 when Penryn comes out (which looks to clock pretty well too).
 
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