Quad Damage

[Parallax]

Guys,

I currently have a e6600 and considering getting a quad. Now I know the the new C2D penryns (45nm) are round the cornor, but the way the q6600 price is atm, its a good time to buy, and I hear they clock well. Does Crysis support all four cores etc?, as I have seen some stating that it does and other forums not

Kristof

 

[randal]

What board have you got? Some NVidia based boards won't support Penryn, so you might have to either a) get a new board b) settle for the Q6600.

 

[Parallax]

Asus P5K Deluxe (P35), supports 45nm out of the box

 

[randal]

I'd wait for Penryn then, early reviews seem to say they're much better than the current quads and clock rather nicely.

Grr, why did I have to opt for a poxy NVidia chipset grumble grumble

 

[rodders]

How long till these new chips? was thinking quad, but waiting seems a good idea.

 

[weescott]

QX9650 in 2 days from OCUK. The rest in January.

 

[YZFAndy]

QX9650 in 2 days from OCUK. The rest in January.

Then month of waiting till supply reaches demand in the mean time quads will drop in price even more.

 

[Dougiebabe2003]

I would wait..... and that's what Im doing

Get a dual now if your building a brand new PC or if you have dual core now (which you do) live with it till Feb/March Next year and get a Penryn.

They're gonna be around the same price but use less power, give out less heat and OC better.

It all makes sense unless your really impaitent or REALLY need a quad now...

 

[DavidB]

Then month of waiting till supply reaches demand in the mean time quads will drop in price even more.

Quad prices wont drop that much more imo, they want to encourage you to buy the new technology so make it look better value (which it is).

and I hear they clock well. Does Crysis support all four cores etc?,

suprised nobody addressed this... although crysis does support quad core processors, it dosnt utilise them properly. Indeed it dosnt even use 100% of a dual core processor, let alone a quad core. Graphics cards are the bottleneck there not the CPU !

 

[sepulchre]

I ordered a Q6600 a couple of minutes ago, as I'm only just moving from an opty 165 I feel this will give me a good enough speed boost to keep me going for a couple of years and the price just now is too good to be ignored!. I don't see as I will really need anything faster than a 3.0Ghz quad for the foreseeable future tbh.

 

[Shash]

I went with q6600, tbh if I went with a DC I'd still spend £100, so losing an extra 50 doesnt matter to me, it'll do me fine until nahelem I believe!