Price drops from Intel, again.

Intel has officially gone mad.

Those are 45nm Q6600's for $266 right?

iyo... Will most of them overclock up to or past 3GHz on air?

I think they are the 65nm Q6600, the same as is availiable today.

I thought most people already knew the prices were going to be like this near the end of the summer.

It's a good thing I'm planning on building around then. Either the 6850 or the q6600. Incredible prices. And I was thinking a 2900xtx, if it is out. For some reaon I think it is going to be better then the 8900gtx or whatever nvidia will release. I think it's 512 bit memory interface is a good advantage. Now they jsut need to give it the ability to use that bandwidth. Don't take what I think as a fact or anything, it's just what I think (or hope) might happen. I'll get whatever card is the best for my price range when the time comes.

Sorry for going off topic.

so what 's happening??!??

I've known this for about 4 months now, but still, its almost a 50% drop in prices. It rightly bears a "ZOMGWTF"

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. They're both $266. I have a feeling the 6850 will be the better buy. What do you guys think?

Depends on what you do with your PC I guess. For *most* people dual core is more than enough, however some enthusiasts/professionals use software that takes advantage of massive multithreading...

Remember, you can always overclock the CPU, but nothing can be done to double the core count.

The Q6600 should have no problem overclocking to 3GHz+ anyway, so if given the choice I'd take the Q6600 over the E6850. You get the best of both worlds - excellent single and multithreaded performance. 8)

Too bad I wont be building a new PC for at LEAST 1 year.

By then quad core will be standard. As well as 4gigs of ram

I'm expecting to build a dual quad with 8GB as soon as Intel and AMD finish shadowboxing and put some product out!!!

Well looks like I'm going for quad core for the next upgrade after all. That way it will last me a bit longer than a year.