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Wait or get a Q6700?

w00dy85

w00dy85

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I have been waiting to get a Nehalem, but just read an article saying the Lynnfield (main stream Nehalem) will not arrive till the third quarter of 09 :(

I've currently got a 4800+ x2 (socket 939) which I have had 2 years now and the mobo 3 years and I feel it’s getting a bit long in the tooth. I did not mind waiting till later this year for the Nehalems to come out, but this time next year :eek:

I have a 3870x2 and I know my cpu is bottle necking this card big time, so I’m not getting the max out of it. I’m not sure what to do? If I did go for new cpu I would go for a Q6700, as I want my next cpu to last me a few years.

Would you still wait or get the Q6700? I would probably OC it as well.
 
Don't bother with the Q6600. Its an expensive stop gap. Get yourself a Lynnfield compatible mobo and some nice ram, and wack an E2180 or even an E1200 in there for now and oc the hell out of it.

That way you've only spent 45 quid (at most) more than you budgeted for nehalem, and you can upgrade when Intel release the new cores. Personally i think a lot of the press surrounding the new cpus is exaggerated. 'Q3 of 09' for a new chip seems a bit far off for the new model.
 
miceormen said:
Don't bother with the Q6600. Its an expensive stop gap. Get yourself a Lynnfield compatible mobo and some nice ram, and wack an E2180 or even an E1200 in there for now and oc the hell out of it.

That way you've only spent 45 quid (at most) more than you budgeted for nehalem, and you can upgrade when Intel release the new cores. Personally i think a lot of the press surrounding the new cpus is exaggerated. 'Q3 of 09' for a new chip seems a bit far off for the new model.
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Depends if the OP specified a quad becuase he does things which would make use of a quad. If not, your suggesting is useful.

I went from the same rig to a q6600 and the difference is amazing. But I do a lot of encoding otherwise I would have bought a E7200 or E8400 if just for gaming.

And, two months ago when I did my upgrade, socket 939 stuff were still selling well. I got £170 for my cpu,ram and mobo and paid £270 for my Intel replacements including going from 2gb to 4gb (I thought why not ;))

So that was £100 well spent as I couldn't wait until Nehalem, plus I don;t fancy spending £600 on a cpu/mobo/ram combo.

The beauty is now I can upgrade to maybe a q9550 next year cheaply when all those people and upgrading to Nehalem. Maybe even pick up a cheap x48 board as well.
 
Get yourself a Lynnfield compatible mobo and some nice ram, and wack an E2180 or even an E1200 in there for now and oc the hell out of it.
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Am I missing something in your advice? As no Nehalem CPU will fit in LGA775 socket.
 
Tetras said:
Am I missing something in your advice? As no Nehalem CPU will fit in LGA775 socket.
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Quite right, Lynnfield is LGA 1160 socket, and Bloomfield is LGA1366. Unless intel have a "U Turn" none of the Nehelam varients will fit in the LGA775.
 
I sincerely apologise. My mistake. Assumed Nehalem would be LGA775.

Still, considering you're moving up from a 939 4800 you'd probably still see a performance increase if you went with one of the budget c2d's (e2xxx) and a cheapo mobo. Say you spent £130 on said setup now, it'd serve you well without spending stupid amounts on a Kentsfield comp, and, unless you're using it for video editing or another multi core app you won't see a major difference between a Q6600 and an oc'd E2xxx chip. : )
 
Nehalem means new motherboard, CPU + 3 x DDR3 ram sticks (triple channel) + new CPU HSF if the stock one is noisy so you are looking around £1.7K minimum as the first Nehalem CPU's will be the Extreme Edition ones and they are going to be around £1.1K+ for the CPU alone!!

Better to get a Q6700-Q9450 now then upgrade to Nehalem in about 18 months as nothing is really going to need that much power right now even a decent Quad is more than enough for ages as the software is a long way behind the hardware now.
 
I had the same problem as you do i upgrade or wait for nehalem and way i looked at it i was coming from a 4400X2 so going with what i have now Q9450 i got a smashing performance increase. In a couple of years time i can upgrade to nehalem letting the early adopters iron out the problems for me and i will get another noticiable performance boost. You could spend your whole life waiting to upgrade to the next best thing and end up never upgrading at all go with a nice intel quad for now and get your moneys worth which you won't do if your an early adopter with nehalem.
 
AWPC said:
as the first Nehalem CPU's will be the Extreme Edition ones and they are going to be around £1.1K+ for the CPU alone!!
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No, the first Nehalems will all be bloomfields. These are both Performance Mainstream and Extremes. Prices should start at a 1000unit wholesale price of $284 (less than the Q9450 is right now@$314).

Sure the X58 motherboards are likely to be pricey. Rumors suggest that bloomfield may be compatible with DDR2 as well, but I suspect that all the initial boards will be DDR3 only.. Lets hope DDR3 prices come down :).

1.7K for a basic Nehalem system I dont think so, I would estimate £600+vat should put together a decent upgrade pack, with a 2.66Ghz Nehalem, an X58 board, and 6 1meg DDR3 memory sticks at current prices. If the memory goes down, then the overall price will go down. Add PSU/Case/Graphics/HDD etc Even so, with the Geforce GTX280 dropping all the time, I would imagine 1K would put together a complete system.
 
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