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just had another look before these dam wolfys came out i was looking to buy an e2200 or a e2180, but im tempted to just buy the 8200 wolf its only £123 which now seem cheap wen compares with the current price of the 8400 :)

as long as ther easy to clock to 3ghz (even for me) might buy it
 
i dunno what i should do now, cuz i dont really need an upgrade badly yet, i can run the latest games (on low spec) would be nice to run them higher, now i feel i have a time limted to buy the 8200 'im falling back on' cuz i think they will raise the price wen ther in stock
 
Hesky82 said:
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Your quite a good example of this Hesky regarding Quad-cores as in the grand scheme of things you were quite late to the G0 Q6600 party, you must have been bombarded by hype for months about the quads before you finally got yourself set-up with one, now even though you are months behind the pack (so to speak) you are happy as larry and you probably got a better chip than the guinea pigs! :D

Another purchasing 'hook' I found interesting was a comment by Will Hub a few weeks ago, he was worried that if he didn't snap up an E8400 on release he wouldn't get a good clocking chip? like only the good clocking chips are the first ones released?

I always thought the longer a chip was produced the better it got? sure you will always get some weeks that don't produce ace clockers but on the whole it seems the norm that more recent steppings chips tend to be better chips?

Looking back to the last big thing, the INTEL Quad Cores, when that hit these forums people went Bonkers (must have, must have). It kept them amused for a good few weeks/months until the G0 stepping arrived and suddenly B3 quads were 'ditched'! In this scenario I reckon it would be fair to say early adopters got a raw deal, the folks who hid their credit cards and sat it out for a month or two were rewarded with a better quad core! :cool:

I must admit its very hard to resist the 'BUY NOW' button when new hardware is released but I think its prudent to wait a month or two for prices to settle down and any bugs to be ironed out.

I am reading that the current E8400 has bugs with the DTS? I wonder is this is true? not that INTEL would admit it mind. . .
 
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