Who would buy

[Biffa]

A low speed desktop Quad range?

I would, I think Intel should bring out something like the following, with G0 steppings

Say:
Q6300 @ 1.8Ghz
Q6400 @ 2.1Ghz

 

[Azza]

Im pretty sure they where planning on bringing out a Q6400 some time but I dont think they bothered.



edit------------------------------------------------->

Here it is.


Seems they just decided to leave it in the end.

 

[Cob]

Well the Xeon X3210 is basically a Q6400.

Still too much money tho.

 

[Biffa]

Well the Xeon X3210 is basically a Q6400.

Still too much money tho.

I know it is, thats why I said "Desktop" to fit into the range.

Shame about that Q6400, would be even better now if it was a low power G0 stepping 1333 FSB version Or a Q6300 with a similar.

Even a lower cache version for even less money, lets face it for desktop stuff you could go for a Q2XXX or Q4XXX model and not lose much over the big cache versions.

 

[WJA96]

Well the Xeon X3210 is basically a Q6400.

Still too much money tho.

Well, that depends where you're buying them from, surely?

 

[Azza]

Well, that depends where you're buying them from, surely?

At that price you can just buy a Q6600.

 

[Cob]

Well, that depends where you're buying them from, surely?

True. But there's still only about 20 quid of a difference between them if you go hunting for the cheapest of each.

Tho your hunting skills are probably a damn sight superior to mine.

 

[MumboJumbo]

DOnt the xeons overclock really well?

Also. There is infact no difference between the price between the Q6600 go and that xeon 2.13 i think it was. Well... i say no more