So who is getting Quad 6600 then at this new price?

[gt_junkie]

Agreed - nice price but will only get one when i find anything my C2D can't do.

I'm sure if i had the money i'd do it - but as i have rent to pay i'll be giving it a miss until it drops further!

I'd maybe consider one if it was around £250.

gt

 

[Arthalen]

Hey guys, been a while....

I'm interested at this price point. I've stayed away from Quad core as others have said, no real need for it.

But I've recently discovered Virtual Server 2005, and am thinking this maybe the ticket to run my Host OS and 3 Guest OSes all at the same time on a single PC.

Finally get round to setting up that test AD Environment to finish off my MCSE exams for work. I might even get work to pay for the chip lol!

 

[Big.Wayne]

So who has actually took the plunge? (Quad Core)

Who?

Interested who with 6600's etc...will be selling them on to make way for this little beauty.

Hehe, nearly 5 months later still asking the same question

The answer is still the same even though its had a massive price slash its still a chunk of money to lay out on a CPU.

If you needed this CPU you wouldn't need to ask for reassurance in the purchase. If you were a professional video editer and literally banging out edits day in day out and were getting paid for it then its obviously a no-brainer, if this chip could make you more money and pay for itself quickly then buy it and start earning.

If on the other hand you do one or two video edits a week and don't earn much money for doing it it makes little sense to throw money away, business is about making profits and having the tools to do that effectively.

If anyone wants to increase their ePennie size and buy one of these then just do it, if it will make you happy and you can actually afford it then there is no harm done, just don't pretend that you can 'justify' it by classing yourself as a power-user.

Everyone has a period when overclocking becomes a major feature in ones life, we like to stay ahead of the pack and use/play with all the nice shiney things but I don't know anyone who keep this activity up for more than a year or so.

Ultimately Easy there will be a bunch of people with better, faster systems than what you have, their benchmarks will 'destroy' yours, can you live with that?

 

[Cob]

Has anyones been dispatched yet?


*edit*


Well it's now 5pm and my order is still apparently sitting in the warehouse queue

Do OcUK dispatch items on a Saturday morning, or am I looking at a Monday dispatch with Tuesday delivery (5 days after placing my order!)?


Because i did pay a premium to OcUK for a 400 quid item that they claimed to have in stock yesterday, and are still advertising as having so.

 

[fornowagain]

Ultimately Easy there will be a bunch of people with better, faster systems than what you have, their benchmarks will 'destroy' yours, can you live with that?

Now now Wayne, baiting Easy again, lol. If he just wanted scores he'd of kept his last quad core and GTX wouldn't he?

Seriously though, as much as I'm tempted by the more reasonable price now, I just won't use the 2 extra cores. So that's a no for me, at least not yet. Maybe after the Q3 price cuts.

 

[l33t-krew]

tbh there are cheaper places/

Would still recommend OC because I have used them before. They are great (As long as something dosenet go wrong).

However there are places nearly £30 cheaper

 

[Big.Wayne]

baiting

I'm not trying to bait anyone, its just a straight up question?

Who actually cares who has the fastest system right? I can think of plenty of things that would make me feel good other than having the system that can run synthetic benchies quicker than anyone else?

It's what you do with it thats the important thing

 

[fornowagain]

I'm not trying to bait anyone, its just a straight up question?

Oh yes of course, my "mistake", must have misread not in the slightest bit provocative

 

[Cupra]

mine will be up for sale as im after a quad.. will have to be the bay tho as ive not being here long enough for mm

 

[jaykay]

mine will be up for sale as im after a quad.. will have to be the bay tho as ive not being here long enough for mm

how come u have over 250 post and been here for more than 3 months
to see the mm change your trust and wait for 24hrs for a don to accept

 

[easyrider]

Ultimately Easy there will be a bunch of people with better, faster systems than what you have, their benchmarks will 'destroy' yours, can you live with that?

Well I'm liviing with it now with a 6400 @3.8ghz that has 2mb cache and a 8800 GTS that has 320MB ram.

So what's your question again?

You know I have this setup just like fornowagain does.And he's right If i cared about benchmarks then I would still have the QX6700 and GTX.

However a quad for 350,and after selling a 6300 and 4300 I had around makes the upgrade to quad easier on the wallet, (around 160) so thats why I ask.

The answer is still the same even though its had a massive price slash its still a chunk of money to lay out on a CPU.

But it was ok for you to spend 300 on a opty 170?
Hypocrisy at its finest


Any way this thread has gone way off topic.

My original question was:

"Interested who with 6600's etc...will be selling them on to make way for this little beauty?"

And what most have done is tell me its not worth it....LOL when it wasn't what I was asking.

Thanks for bait though wayne,

But this fish just aint hungry

 

[Cupra]

how come u have over 250 post and been here for more than 3 months
to see the mm change your trust and wait for 24hrs for a don to accept

what do you mean change my trust my trust has been setup for ages

 

[jaykay]

no in the settings there a box you have to tick to allow access to member market

 

[Big.Wayne]

But this fish just aint hungry

Dunno what your talking about, obviously fornowagain is trying to stir things up so he can sit back and enjoy the fallout. If you can't take being questioned directly about something without becoming 'defensive' I will just avoid asking you any pertinant questions . . . just curious why you are asking who is upgrading to quad, I shall have to live without an answer I guess

 

[Big.Wayne]

I'm not sure, I keep asking myself - do I really need a Quad 6600

Haha and the answer was . . . of course I don't, I mean why would you need a quad?

People are asking the wrong questions, no-one on these forums needs to ask "Do I need this new product xyz" almost everyone knows the answer to that question, its more a case of "I want product xyz" can anyone else help me justify the purchase lol!

Penryn may push the prices even lower within a few months after release.

Of course it will, people will be dumping their uber Conroe/Allandales very fast.

Still tempted to buy one though

Thats the idea, the marketing people are trying to make you upgrade an already brilliant processor, they just want your money and will fill your head with guff, basically just go and do a weeks work and spend the lot on a piece of hardware that offers no 'meaningful' advantage whatsoever?

64-bit processors, um thats been useful for most of us, dual-core again offers very little, Quad-core? what rubbish, DirectX 10? nothing uses it yet and even when it does what exactly will directx 10 look like over well coded DirectX 9?. NCQ on hard-drives, SLI, Crossfire, PCI-express, the list goes on and on and on.

Are people really so gullible? I don't think so, I know how I see things and I'm guessing a lot of other consumers do to, the Quad-Core is a huge flop, INTEL have had to almost cut the price in half to tempt people to buy them, if they were selling well then they wouldn't have reduced the prices so much would they?

£75 quid is a very sweet price for a processor, £150 is pretty much top end but if you hit me with every last bit of hype and show me lots of pretty charts showing benchmarks with the new product whooping everything else then I may, just may rise to a top spend of £200 but I'm not gonna spend one penny more. More than likely I'm gonna buy the £75 quid product and tweak/overclock it to get more *Bang for Buck*

 

[marscay]

i agree with you 100% about the current state of the hardware industry, in short it's a con with empty promises and smoke screens at every turn.

but with no shortage of 'power users' (ie pretentious wannabees) snapping up this crap they will keep churning it out.

i'll entertain thinking about a quad processor when there's likelyhood of needing one.

 

[easyrider]

Haha and the answer was . . . of course I don't, I mean why would you need a quad?

People are asking the wrong questions, no-one on these forums needs to ask "Do I need this new product xyz" almost everyone knows the answer to that question, its more a case of "I want product xyz" can anyone else help me justify the purchase lol!

Of course it will, people will be dumping their uber Conroe/Allandales very fast.

Thats the idea, the marketing people are trying to make you upgrade an already brilliant processor, they just want your money and will fill your head with guff, basically just go and do a weeks work and spend the lot on a piece of hardware that offers no 'meaningful' advantage whatsoever?

64-bit processors, um thats been useful for most of us, dual-core again offers very little, Quad-core? what rubbish, DirectX 10? nothing uses it yet and even when it does what exactly will directx 10 look like over well coded DirectX 9?. NCQ on hard-drives, SLI, Crossfire, PCI-express, the list goes on and on and on.

Are people really so gullible? I don't think so, I know how I see things and I'm guessing a lot of other consumers do to, the Quad-Core is a huge flop, INTEL have had to almost cut the price in half to tempt people to buy them, if they were selling well then they wouldn't have reduced the prices so much would they?

£75 quid is a very sweet price for a processor, £150 is pretty much top end but if you hit me with every last bit of hype and show me lots of pretty charts showing benchmarks with the new product whooping everything else then I may, just may rise to a top spend of £200 but I'm not gonna spend one penny more. More than likely I'm gonna buy the £75 quid product and tweak/overclock it to get more *Bang for Buck*

GUFF


I answered every Curiosity of yours.

Oh and before you bore anyone else tell me why 170 opty was worth the 300 quid price tag?

Don't post again unless you answer this question,that i put to you two posts ago.

Thanks

 

[easyrider]

i agree with you 100% about the current state of the hardware industry, in short it's a con with empty promises and smoke screens at every turn.

but with no shortage of 'power users' (ie pretentious wannabees) snapping up this crap they will keep churning it out.

i'll entertain thinking about a quad processor when there's likelyhood of needing one.

Just like Phase?

It's not needed,but yet you done it!

Hypocrisy at its best

LOL

 

[Big.Wayne]

Hipocracy

Hypocrisy

"In an act of hypocrisy the aim is to condemn another person or people, not to condemn an act. To preach against an act of which one is oneself guilty, does not in itself constitute hypocrisy, even if one takes efforts to conceal one's behaviour. It becomes hypocrisy when it involves verbal attacks or demands of punishment against perpetrators of the act which one practices oneself. Hypocrisy can be too, simply put, the pot calling the kettle black"

Cmon easy, show some intelligence, don't just retort with such a weak reply, its a discussion right? so it helps if you can express yourself better than just saying "Guff"

I'm not a hypocrite and I don't appreciate being called one. Would it be possible to not get involved in a childish name calling thread for once, if you don't agree with anything I have said then either ignore it or if you can be bothered make an articulate reply?

If you want a quad then get one, no one is stopping you?

 

[eracer2006]

As said before, ignore Easyrider, he loves making arguements, im sure hes 12.